The Story of Isaac Brock - Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of Isaac Brock, by Walter R. Nursey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 Author: Walter R. Nursey Release Date: March 20, 2006 [EBook #18025] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF ISAAC BROCK *** Produced by Steven Gibbs, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg i] THE STORY OF ISAAC BROCK HERO, DEFENDER AND SAVIOUR OF UPPER CANADA 1812 BY WALTER R. NURSEY "By his unrivalled skill, by great And veteran service to the state, By worth adored, He stood, in high dignity, The proudest knight of chivalry, Knight of the Sword." —Coplas de Manrique. TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS 1908 [Pg ii]Copyright, Canada, 1908, by Walter R. Nursey. [Pg iii]A WORD TO THE READER That Isaac Brock is entitled to rank as the foremost defender of the flag Western Canada has ever seen, is a statement which no one familiar with history can deny. Brock fought and won out when the odds were all against him.