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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DH_fort-drummond_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
[English Text]: Fort Drummond
This small redoubt, or square fortification, and the U-shaped advance battery, named in honour of Sir Gordon Drummond, were built in the late spring of 1814 to defend the main portage road from Chippawa to Queenst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12DG_battle-of-cooks-mill_Welland-ON.html
[English Text]: Battle of Cook's Mills
In October 1814 an American army advanced from Fort Erie toward the British line along the Chippawa River. Lieutenant-General Drummond ordered a reconnaissance towards Cook's Mills on his right flank in h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11KM_4-the-counter-offensive-takes-shape_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
The Niagara escarpment rises above you. The British reinforcements arriving here from Fort George, in battle dress and exhausted from a "double quick march", struggled up this slope some distance to your right.
While the Americans controlled Qu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM118H_site-of-redan-battery_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Near this spot Lieut-Col. John MacDonnell Attorney General of Upper Canada was mortally wounded 13th October 1812.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM118A_3-the-capture-of-the-redan-and-the-death-of-brock_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
On the river banks below here, the Americans were trapped. To the right the Americans scaled the river cliff and seized the Heights above. To the left the British held the Village of Queenston. A British 18-pounder cannon situated here within an e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1189_2-the-treacherous-river-cliff_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
"An unguarded trail up this steep cliff was the only route which the Americans had to the heights of Queenston. The trail was to your right but does not exist any longer. Trapped on the river shore by unrelenting gunfire, the Americans contemplate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1188_1-attack_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
If you go to the lookout behind the Laura Secord monument you will see across the river and slightly to your right the area where a huge American force assembled for the invasion of Canada. In the early hours of October 13, 1812, six hundred Ameri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1187_5-the-decisive-battle_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
On the plateau before you, the British and Americans met for battle. The British formed a line to your right, the Americans to your left. General Sheaffe formed a British counter-offensive force of nine hundred men in a line shoulder to shoulder. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MH_fort-erie-pro-patria-mori-cairn_Fort-Erie-ON.html
[Text on the base of the Cairn];
Here are buried150 British Officers and MenWho fell in the attack on Fort ErieOn the 26th day of August, 1814, and threeof the defenders, men of the United StatesInfantry, whose remains were discoveredduring the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MD_major-john-richardson_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
This pioneer historian, author and soldier was born in Queenston. His family moved to Amherstburg about 1802, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 Richardson joined the British army. Retired on half pay in 1818 in London, England, he published t…