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Interesting Discoveries In Toronto

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
August
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Toronto, C. W., Ang. 13. Wh'ile some workmen were engaged in excavaling near the oíd fort, in thia place, they discovovered the remains of fifteen bodien of British and Amen-! can soldiers who feil in the war of 1812. Several buttons, bayoneta, and apauletles woro alm found One button bas tho initials of Penns-, lvania Ranger on it, another is marked II. S., another 8t.li Jüritiah Gren:dio-s. Atew American coins wore 1O found From the position of the bodies it is evident that they were buriod in the trenoh near whure they feil. Gen. Pike and two ■ hundred Amoricans and a nuraber of British were killed near this spot in 1813 by the explosión of a powdor magazine.