Downing Street,
6th October 1812. 6 A.M.
Captain Coore, Aid de Camp to Lieut. General Sir George Prevost, is just arrived with Dispatches from that Officer, dated Montreal, 26th August and I st September, 1812.
They announce the succesful termination of the campaign in Upper Canada, by the surrender of Fort Detroit, 33 pieces of Cannon and the whole of the American Army under the command of General Hull, on the 16th of August, to His Majesty's Forces, commanded by Major-General Brock. The Officers and Men are Prisoners of war.
The loss of the British in the Actions which preceded the surrender is trifling, being only Three men killed, and Two Officers and Thirteen men wounded.
The names of the Officers wounded, are Captain Muir and Lieutenant Sutherland, of the 41st Regiment.
By kind permission of the Principal Archivist, Nottinghamshire Records Office.
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