Battle of Queenston Heights. One of the most famous battles of the WAR OF 1812 , the battle for Queenston Heights was both a victory and a tragedy for the British and Canadian forces against the invading American army.
The battle took place on 13 October 1812. In the aftermath of Major General Isaac BROCK 's stunning victory against the US forces at Detroit, the US and British authorities agreed to a temporary ceasefire. Instead of peace, it allowed both sides to regroup their efforts to continue hostilities. John McLean. John McLean was one of Ohio’s foremost jurists.
After serving with distinction on the Supreme Court of Ohio, he served for more than 31 years as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. BROCK, Sir ISAAC - Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. BROCK, Sir ISAAC, army officer and colonial administrator; b. 6 Oct. 1769 in St Peter Port, Guernsey, eighth son of John Brock and Elizabeth De Lisle; d. 13 Oct. 1812 at Queenston Heights, Upper Canada.
He never married, and there seems to be no real evidence to support the stories that have been told of a romantic attachment in Canada. The Brock family were moderately wealthy. Isaac Brock evidently received his earliest education in Guernsey, where we are told he was remembered by his schoolfellows as an excellent swimmer and boxer, and by his family “chiefly for extreme gentleness.” When ten years old he was sent to school in Southampton, England, and subsequently studied for a year “under a French Protestant clergyman at Rotterdam, for the purpose of learning the French language.” Hiram silas cronk.