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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/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/HM10KY_locomotive-turntable_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
For 103 years, beginning in 1854, a train powered by a steam locomotive pulled into the Niagara Dock. At first it only came from Chippawa via Niagara Falls and Queenston but by 1863 the line had been extended as far as Fort Erie and Buffalo. The t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10K7_niagara-harbour-and-dock-company_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Formed by local businessmen in 1831, the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company created a shipping basin here on the Niagara River by hiring hundreds of labourers to excavate a riverside marsh. By the late 1830s the company employed close to 400 workers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10JX_welcome-to-fort-george_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Built in 1796, Fort George was the scene of fierce engagements during the War of 1812. It was captured and destroyed then refortified by the Americans in 1813. It was re-taken by the British later that same year. The fort was abandoned in the 1820…