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Excerpt from The Origin and Official History of the Thirteenth Battalion of Infantry: And a Description of the Work of the Early Militia of the Niagara Peninsula in the War of 1812 and the Rebellion of 1837
An official return of the enrolled militia for the year 1805 shows an aggre gate of 652 officers and non-commissioned ofiicers and privates. Of the whole number onlv 200 had received any military training for several years. The unsatisfactorv state of relations between Great Britain and the United States had then again begun to excite alarm. As the regular force-ln the province did not exceed 400 men, the militia were once more ordered to hold themselves in readiness for service and about stands of arms were dis tributed among them. A comprehenswe militia act was framed and passed into law providing for a much better organization than any former act, and enabling the Governor to march the militia out of the province to the assistance of the province of Lower Canada when actually invaded or in a state of insurrection, or in pursuit of an enemy who may have invaded this province and also for the destruction of any vessel or vessels built or building, or any depot or magazine formed or forming, or for the attack of any enemy who may be embodying or marching for the purpose of invading this province, or for the attack of any fortification now erected or which mav be hereafter erected to cover the invasion thereof. Lieut.-governor Gore was evidently very well satisfied with this act, but General Brock indicated the weak point in the act by the remark that it con tained many wise and salutary provisions but few means of enforcing them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
