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number at a place called Christlers Farm in 

 Upper Canada on the 11th November, 1813, 

 which compelled him to a precipitate retreat, 

 and to abandon the British territory, by recross- 

 ing the St. Lawrence, and ascending Sahnon 

 River to a place called French Mills, within 

 the American boundary; in which situation, 

 owing to the panic that embarrassed all his 

 operations, he deemed himself so unsafe, as to 

 think it advisable to destroy all the boats and 

 craft he had collected for carrying his plan 

 into effect, and retire to a position more distant, 

 or more secure from attack. This repulse in 

 the attempt at invasion was rendered decisive 

 by the previous retreat, or rather complete de- 

 feat of a force amounting to 7000 men under 

 General Hampton, that was intended to make 

 a diversion in favour of Wilkinson, on the south- 

 western frontier. So sanguine were the ex- 

 pectations of success formed by these com- 

 manders, that a junction of their forces was 

 contemplated at Montreal, where they pro- 

 mised themselves winter-quarters, and from 

 whence in the next campaign they calculated 

 a victorious career was to be pursued. The 

 battle of La Fourche or Chateauguay, that 

 annihilated this visionary glory, was one of the 

 singular events that cannot be taken into the 



