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Battles of Short HillsCopyright © 1998 By Lorine McGinnis SchulzeLate in 1837 the Rebellion appeared to be over and Navy Island had been evacuated by MacKenzie and his men in January of that year. Volunteers were called on to enlist in the Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada and the First Frontier Light Infantry (10 Companies) was stationed on the Niagara River under Lieut-Col. John Clark. Col. Hughes of the 24th Regiment was in charge until May of 1838 when Col. Townsend of the 32nd Regiment relieved him of command. On April 14th, nine prisoners from Dr. Dunscombe's Rising near Brantford, Ontario, were sentenced to death. Three were reprieved and the six remaining were to be hung on 20 April 1838. Tensions ran high, and on the 13th of April the hanging of Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews in Toronto, added to the resentment of the local populace. On 19th of April a group of local men met and decided to attack the gaol in Hamilton. They were led by Linus Wilson Miller and Dr. J. T. Wilson, but on arriving there they were met with a large body of militia and the news of a prisoner reprieve. On May 12th. Charles Durand was sentenced to be hung in Toronto and the rest of the political prisoners being held were ordered freed. Durand was reprieved but sentenced to be banished, whereupon he fled to join other refugees in Buffalo, New York. Meantime the patriots as they were called, captured and burnt the steamboat Sir Robert Peel, near French Creek in the St. Lawrence River. This resulted in rewards being offered for William Johnson of French Creek, and Daniel McLeod, Samuel C. Frey and Robert Smith from Upper Canada. |
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