Windmill battle

NOVEMBER 12-16, 1838

NUMBER OF COMMITTED

AND DEATHS IN SERVICE UNKNOWN.

This battle occurred in November 1838 near Prescott, on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence. Some two hundred Americans, convinced partisans of a republican government or mere plunderers and mistakenly believing that many Canadians would welcome them with open arms, crossed the river and took up positions at Windmill Point, in the mill and in the adjacent stone houses. . It took six days for a combined force of British regulars and Canadian militiamen to kill or capture these "Patriot Hunters". The Canadian camp counted seventeen killed and sixty wounded. The invaders, massed behind stone walls, lost 45 men, killed or wounded. The victory came when the stone walls were shot down by British cannons that had been transported on barges whose crews included Tyendinaga Mohawks.