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3 unusual facts about Battle of Lundy's Lane


Battle of Lundy's Lane

Evidence compiled by Donald Graves, a Canadian historian employed at the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence Canada, argues that General Drummond failed to use skirmish pickets to protect his guns, which were consequently captured by the Americans.

In the 2002 film Gangs of New York, the character of Bill "the Butcher" Cutting, played by Daniel Day Lewis, mentions that his father died "for his country" on the "25th of July Anno Domini 1814".

Thomas Stockton

During the War of 1812 he was part of the attack on Fort George on the Niagara River and fought at Lundy's Lane.


John Le Couteur

Le Couteur later took part in the Siege of Fort Erie, the battles of Sackett's Harbour and Lundy's Lane and thirty-three skirmishes.

Lloyd Reckord

In 1958, already established in Jamaica, Reckord appeared in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London, with Andrée Melly as his white girlfriend; a later Armchair Theatre adaptation the following year concentrated on the couple's relationship.

Louis de Watteville

In June 1814, de Watteville was transferred briefly to the Richelieu River sector, but on 8 August, he was appointed to command the "Right Division" on the Niagara River in Upper Canada (succeeding Major General Phineas Riall who had been wounded and taken prisoner by the Americans at the Battle of Lundy's Lane).

Peggy Ramsay

For her entire career her business was based in Goodwin's Court, an alley off St. Martin's Lane, London.

St Peter-in-the-East

St Peter-in-the-East is a 12th-century church on Queen's Lane, north of the High Street in central Oxford, England.

St. Martin's Lane

In the 18th-century St. Martin's Lane was noted for the Academy founded by William Hogarth and later for premises of cabinet-makers and "upholsterers" such as Thomas Chippendale, who moved to better premises there in 1753, Vile and Cobb, and William Hallett around the corner in Newport Street.

The Liberties, Dublin

John's Lane Augustinian Church was designed by Augustus Pugin and opened in 1874; the twelve statues in the tower niches are the work of sculptor James Pearse, the father of Irish patriots Patrick and William Pearse.

Thomas Pearson

In 1814, Pearson led a detachment of light troops in the Niagara peninsula, and fought at the battles of Chippawa and Lundy's Lane, and in the Siege of Fort Erie, where he was wounded again.


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