The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . mericans, having three generals disabledand nearly one-third of their number killed and wounded,fell back to the south side of the Chippawa—leaving theBritish in possession of the field. The British loss in the engagement equalled that ofthe Americans, the 89th Royal Irish Regiment, who borethe brunt of the battle, losing 254 men out of a total of 400,and the Royal Scots lost nearly 200 men out of 500 in thefield. Scotts 1st American Brigade, at the close of theaction, was reduced to a f
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . mericans, having three generals disabledand nearly one-third of their number killed and wounded,fell back to the south side of the Chippawa—leaving theBritish in possession of the field. The British loss in the engagement equalled that ofthe Americans, the 89th Royal Irish Regiment, who borethe brunt of the battle, losing 254 men out of a total of 400,and the Royal Scots lost nearly 200 men out of 500 in thefield. Scotts 1st American Brigade, at the close of theaction, was reduced to a few hundred effective men, and acompany of the 23rd Infantry that went out with forty-fivelost all but nine men. The result of the Battle of Lundys Lane was of greatimportance to Upper Canada, as the invasion was checkedand the American army thrown back on Fort Erie, whereit remained on the defensive until shortly before the end ofthe war. The fallen heroes of that fateful night sleep well uponthis famous hill, where the sounds of Niagaras war ofwaters forever rise and fall above their honored LUN1)Y S LANK liATTLK MONUMENT. PART I PLANS GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS AND PROGRAMME OF THECELEBRATION ORGANIZATION OF COMMITTEES PLANS AND FEATURES OF THE CENTENARY AS the Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of LundysLane drew near, it became more and more evidentthat the inhabitants of the Niagara District, andthe Province generally, were expecting that this importanthistorical Centennial would be publicly celebrated in animpressive, loyal and imposing manner. The Lundys Lane Historical Society—which for overa quarter of a century had been actively engaged in pro-moting the historic interests of the Niagara Frontier, beganforming its plans long in advance to gratify this patrioticdesire of the people, and early in 1914 a meeting of theExecutive Committee of the Society was held for the con-sideration of the following phases of the celebration of theCentenary of the Battle of Lund
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