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Richerd Pierpoint
Richard Pierpoint was a lad of 16 in Senegal, Africa when he was seized and sold into slavery in 1760. He was purchased by an English officer named Pierpoint who had settled in New York’s Hudson Valley. Richard became this officer’s servant and adopted his surname. -
John norton
John Norton was born in Scotland to a Cherokee father and Scottish mother. As a young man he joined the British army in Ireland in 1784. His regiment was shipped to North America in 1785. While stationed at Fort Niagara in Youngstown, New York Norton befriended a number of Six Nations people and began to learn the Mohawk language -
John breant
John was the son of the famous Mohawk War Chief Joseph Brant and he became, along with Norton, a leading war chief of the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations dthe War broke out, Brant and Norton immediately recruited a number of Six Nations warriors and offered their services to British Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, commander of the British forces and President of Upper Canada (Ontariour -
James Prendergast
James Prendergast was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1789. In 1803, he joined the 100th Regiment of Foot of the British Army and came to Canada soon afterwards. James worked his way up the ranks and by 1812 was promoted to staff sergeant, the paymaster sergeant for the regiment -
James Fizbbion
Born in Ireland, James FitzGibbon was raised on tales of the military deeds of his Norman ancestors. At the age of 15, James joined the local Yeomanry Corps and he became sergeant before his 18th birthday. In 1798, he joined the regular army, enlisting in the 49th Regiment of Foot commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Brock -
Laura Secord
Laura Secord was born on September 13, 1775 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Early in the War, Laura’s husband James Secord, a sergeant in the 1st Lincoln militia, was wounded in the battle of Queenston Heights and was rescued from the battlefield by his wife -
Sir Isaac Brock
Sir Isaac Brock was born in 1769 Oct,6th in saint peters port. Brock was a commander of one of the British army he teamed up with the natives beacuse the usa ferd the natives and brock and the native cheff had lots of thing in common sadly Brock died from one of the muskits to the hart and died in 1812 Oct,13th -
Battle of queenston hieghts
Battle of queenston hieghts was lead by Sir Isaac Brock leading his army into a extraordinary victory agenst usa at detroit. but then sadle Brock died. -
Marry Madden
Mary Madden was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and married Dominic Henry, a Royal Artillery gunner from County Derry in 1790. Dominic was soon shipped to North America and posted to Niagara, bringing Mary with him. By 1803, Dominic was a retired pensioner and was appointed the keeper of the first lighthouse on the Great Lakes, built in the Town of Niagara, now Niagara-on-the-Lake, in 1803 -
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was born on 1768 march he was born in a town called scioto river ohio. he was the cheff of a tribe that fought with britin but then died in oct 5 1813 after Tecumseh died his trops did not no what to do with out there cheff so they retreated. -
william hamaiton
William Hamilton Merritt was born in New York State but moved with his family to Upper Canada in 1795, settling in Niagara where the city of St. Catharines, Ontario, would one day be established. Merritt was well educated and proved to be a brilliant businessman. While still a teenager he became a partner in a store but sold that interest in 1812 to take up scientific agriculture on the family farm -
Joseph barss
Joseph Barss was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia during the American Revolution. While still a young boy, he began sailing on his father’s fishing schooners operating out of Liverpool and by the time he was 20 was commanding one of his father’s vessels. At that time, England was at war with France in a conflict that would continue until 1815
