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management of some of his own detached corps, 

 who fired upon each other in the woods with 

 serious execution. From the events of this day, 

 General Hampton derived such small hopes of 

 establishing his winter quarters at Montreal, that 

 he determined to retire within his own frontiers, 

 and depend more upon the resources of his coun- 

 try than his own endeavours to procure them as 

 the reward of conquest. In this action the devo- 

 tion of the Canadians in defence of their country 

 stands forth most eminently conspicuous. In 

 the absence of regular troops, that a militia 

 embodied and disciplined hastily to meet the 

 pressing emergency of a crisis threatening more 

 than common danger was able to fulfil the im- 

 portant duties assigned to it, by opposing itself 

 as a barrier against an enemy, elate in his own 

 strength, and reckoning upon encountering 

 courage only in proportion to numbers, will 

 ever reflect the greatest honour upon it, and 

 not only secure the admiration of succeeding 

 ages, but spread a confidence over the whole 

 empire, that the colours which the Prince Regent 

 has been graciously pleased to commit to the 

 charge of the incorporated battalions of Cana- 

 dian militia will ever be defended by the en- 

 thusiastic bravery so natural to men, when 

 prompted by the benefits of a mild and liberal 

 government to protect the land of their birth 



