Major-General Roger Hale Sheaff
THE FORGOTTEN MAN WHO SAVED CANADA AT QUEENSTON HEIGHTS
Robert Vineberg
Canadian Military Journal•Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 2010
Every Canadian who has learned about the Battle of Queenston Heights knows that Major-General Sir Isaac Brock died leading a valiant charge that defeated the Americans, and forced them to retreat back across the Niagara Frontier. The soaring monument above the battlefield in his honour celebrates him as the victor. However, this is all myth. In actual fact, at the moment he died, the British and Canadians were losing the battle, and the Americans were solidifying their positions on the heights. If this situation had not been reversed, the Americans would have consolidated their position on the Canadian side of Niagara, and, in all likelihood, Upper Canada would have capitulated
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