Francis de Rottenburg British

Following Reverend John Strachan's complaints regarding Upper Canada's administrator, Roger Sheaffe, George Prevost shifted Sheaffe's responsibilities, and gave Swiss-born Francis de Rottenburg control of Upper Canada. De Rottenburg was generally phlegmatic, overcautious, and very nervous about wasting troops on the Niagara Peninsula. He neglected to send troops to Henry Procter, and when Lake Erie was taken by the Americans, he was ready to withdraw his army all the way to Kingston. He commanded British troops in Upper Canada in 1813, and was Prevost's second in command at the 1814 invasion of Lake Champlain. He had little combat experience and was not held in high regard by Wellington's veterans who served under him.