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Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, CB
Downtown Ottawa , Ontario — Central Canada (North America)
Le lieutenant-colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, C.B.
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, August 7, 2014
1. Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, CB Marker
Lieutenant Colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, CB. Le lieutenant-colonel Charles-Michel d’Irumberry de Salaberry, C.B.. English: , A skillful professional soldier, Salaberry formed the celebrated Voltigeurs canadiens. In 1813, he outwitted and defeated a vastly superior American force at the Battle of Châteauguay, helping to save Lower Canada from invasion. ,
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Ahyouwaighs (John Brant)
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Lieutenant Robert Barclay
A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Barclay was posted to the naval base at Fort Malden to command the naval forces on Lake Erie. His command was defeated by the American flotilla at the Battle of Lake Erie in August 1813. Severely outgunned, and badly wounded in the battle, Barclay was exonerated after the war in a court martial called to examine the causes of the defeat.
George Theodore Berthon
Berthon (1806-1892) originally from Vienna, was a portraitist who created many works on commission from the Government of Ontario to comme
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Charles de Salaberry
Charles de Salaberry’s family history contained generations of esteemed military service. Ironically, most of that service was under the Kingdom of France, which controlled the province of Quebec in North amerika until the conclusion of the sju Years War in 1763, whereupon it was ceded to Great Britain. For many Canadiens, the new allegiance to Britain was a bitter pill to swallow, but the de Salaberry’s made the adjustment well enough. bygd the time of Charles’ birth outside Quebec City in 1778, his father Ignace-Michel had helped defend Quebec from the invading Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Charles enlisted in the British army at the age of 14, joining the 60th Regiment. Though dem Salaberry’s background might have been modest compared to many other officers in the British Army, he had one major advantage in the friendship between his father and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. Edward actually corresponded with Ch