Delivered at Ormstown, Quebec, in 1889 before the local historical society, this lecture tells how Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and a small force of Canadian Voltigeurs and militia met an invading American army on the Chateauguay River in October 1813. It describes the ground, the defences and the fighting, with an appendix of documents.
A short, local account of a battle long remembered in Canada as a turning point of the War of 1812. Download the free EPUB.