On the last night of his life, Zebulon Pike sat aboard a warship anchored off the coast of Toronto. The USS Madison rolled gently in the waves along with the rest of the American fleet: fourteen ships carrying nearly two thousand soldiers. They waited patiently there in the dark, biding their time in the waters just south of the sandy peninsula that would eventually become the Toronto islands. In the morning, they would attack York.
Interesting that you make no reference to Tito Le Lievre who was in the magazine at Fort York and detonated the powder magazine that killed General Pike and torched the HMS Brock. I learned this when an author Ron Shaw (lives in Perth Ontario was writing a book about Frances Tito Lelievre 1755-1830 "Tales of the Hare". First in the French Navy he changed to support the English and became a Newfoundland Regiment and participated in many battles on Lake ONTARIO. Tito was my cousins ancestor. A great read on history of Toronto too!
Interesting that you make no reference to Tito Le Lievre who was in the magazine at Fort York and detonated the powder magazine that killed General Pike and torched the HMS Brock. I learned this when an author Ron Shaw (lives in Perth Ontario was writing a book about Frances Tito Lelievre 1755-1830 "Tales of the Hare". First in the French Navy he changed to support the English and became a Newfoundland Regiment and participated in many battles on Lake ONTARIO. Tito was my cousins ancestor. A great read on history of Toronto too!
What a fascinating connection!