Samuel Stubbs American

At the age of sixty-two, Samuel Stubbs was quite possibly the oldest volunteer in the American army. A Kentucky frontiersman, he stood just five feet tall and was expert marksman. It is said that in the three months before the battle of Queenston Heights, he bagged forty-five deer. He fought at Queenston Heights where he was taken prisoner, but was released by the British because of his age. He went on to participate in the attack at York and later at the battle of New Orleans, where he killed several officers. He lived to write a colourful account of his many adventures.