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Graeme Decarie, Canadian Historian
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Reservations about the real importance of General Isaac BrockIf you're a general with an eye to history, it's an awfully good thing to get killed fairly young at the height of your success. Because what can happen is your success can turn very, very sour indeed. At the time that Brock carried out those actions, he was very successful. He kept the Americans off-balance. But he was facing very inferior American armies. And he was facing them with a British army which was small, but still fairly fresh.Those who succeeded him were fighting with armies which were badly supplied, which were worn out from the fighting, they were facing better American armies. I'm not at all sure that Brock's tactics would have continued to work.
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