The brother of yesterday’s blip!

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812)
Guernseys greatest soldier
Like his elder brother Daniel de Lisle Brock (yesterday’s blip), for lack of adequate local provision Isaac Brock was educated outside of the island. At the age of 10 he went to school in Southampton and subsequently had a private education in Rotterdam.
In 1885 at the age of 15½, Brock became an ensign in the 8th Regiment of Foot, where yet another older brother, John, who was later killed in a duel in Cape Town, had purchased a company. 
Five years later in 1780 Isaac Brock purchased a lieutenancy and thenceforth promotion was rapid, with the rank of Lieutenant-colonel in the 59th Foot being reached in 1797 at the age of 31.
Brock distinguished himself in General Moore’s expedition toNorth Holland and then on Nelson’s attack on Copenhagen.
When his regiment was posted to Canada the following year he was promoted to the rank of full Colonel. He promptly dealt with a crisis instigated by deserters at Fort George (in what is now New York State).
He briefly returned to Guernsey in 1805 but when relations with the USA deteriorated in 1806 he was hurriedly recalled to Canada. He was given command in Upper Canada in 1810 (and also appointed as provisional Lieutenant-Governor of the Province) and through the respect he won from them, established his ascendency over the native tribes under the leadership of the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh. When war broke out in 1812 Brock, now a Major-General, in his capacity as Governor of Upper Canada, was responsible for a frontier of 1,300 miles with scarcely as many men.nevertheless he took the offensive and marched to capture Detroit thus uniting behind him both British and French Canadians, as well as retaining the support of the native tribes. 
For these services he was knighted on 10 October 1812 but three days later he fell in a skirmish at Queenstown Heights, near Niagara Falls. 
Nowadays these heights are graced by a tall monument in his honour and ge is also commemorated by Brock University in Ontario, which awards an annual scholarship to Guernsey student. In London a monument to him is in St Paul’s Cathedral. 
In Guernsey we have a plaque on the building which is currently Boots because he lived there at one time and this plaque on the wall of the Town Church. 
Canadian visitors are always delighted to see these monuments, Americans less so!