An aerial view of the shell-pocked landscape surrounding Regina and Kenora trenches on the Somme, fall 1916. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C014151
After the defeat at Crysler’s Farm in the fall of 1813, Major-General James Wilkinson led about 1,200 American troops in a winter attack against Lacolle Mill, roughly 70 kilometres south of Montreal. About 200 British regulars took refuge in a wooden blockhouse while two flanks of riflemen with two cannon lay siege for several hours without much success. Rather than launch an all-out assault, Wilkinson retreated, only to have the much smaller Canadian force rally and give chase.
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