Queenston Heights

Queenston Heights

The Queenston Heights is a geographical feature of the Niagara Escarpment immediately above the village of Queenston, Ontario, Canada. Its geography is a promontory formed where the escarpment is divided by the Niagara River. The promontory forms a cliff face of approximately 100 m (approximately 300 ft).

Queenston Heights was the site of the War of 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights, where Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was killed in action in the defence of Upper Canada (now Ontario). It is mentioned in the 1867 song "The Maple Leaf Forever":

At Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane our brave fathers, side by side, for freedom, homes, and loved ones dear, firmly stood and nobly died. And those dear rights which they maintained, we swear to yield them never. Our watchword evermore shall be, the Maple Leaf forever!

ee also

* Brock's Monument

External links

* [http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/on/queenston/index_E.asp Official website]
* [http://www.generalbrock.com/level2/queenston.htm Queenston Heights Battle Site]
* [http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/results.asp?action=browse&q=79&key=258 Art works of the Battle of Queenston Heights] Niagara Falls Public Library (Ont.)


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