The Day of Crysler's Farm, November 11, 1813 [with] The Upper Canada Village Story

51 pp. The battle of Crysler's farm occurred on Thursday the eleventh of November 1813. It was a contest of some eight hundred British and Canadians against more than four times their number of Americans. The scene was set on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence, twenty miles to the west of Cornwall and seven miles east of present day Morrisburg. It was fought upon the open fields of a farm owned by one John Crysler. This was the first occasion in the War of 1912, when British drill, discipline and the thin red line were fairly tested against an enemy whose talent and preference was for "bush fighting". Crysler's farm was one of the decisive battles of that war, but to understand its significance, we must examine both geography and history.