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Excerpt from The Battle of Lundy's Lane, 25th July, 1814
Almost before the ink was dry on mcclure's letter the flames of Niagara had become the signal fer the rapid advance of a small British cbrps of observation, under Colonel John Murray, which lay at Twelve Mile Creek. Putting his men in sleighs, the British com mander hurried forward through a blinding snowstorm, and fell upon the incendiaries before their work of destruction was completed. The village of Niagara had been already reduced to ashes, but the barracks and defences of Fort George were left comparatively unin jured, and the retreating garrison left the whole of their tents stand ing in the works they had so precipitately abandoned. The recovery of the left bank of -the Niagara by the British was followed by the.
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