embodied in Essex County about March 1814. This unit is perpetuated in the Canadian Army by the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment. Loyal Kent Volunteers A company of volunteer militiamen formed in Kent county on 25 November 1813. Fought in the Battle of Longwoods. This unit is perpetuated in the Canadian Army by the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment. Mississippi Volunteers An ad-hoc unit, recruited on the spot from voyageurs and traders during the attack on Prairie du Chien in 1814. There was also a Mississippi Volunteer Artillery detachment. Incorporated Militia Artillery Company Raised in June 1813, commanded by Captain Alexander Cameron. It consisted of four officers and 31 gunners. Provincial Artillery Drivers As in Lower Canada, volunteers who served as drivers for the Royal Artillery. The unit was organised as a troop, with five officers and 48 men. They and their draught animals were used to convert a detachment of Royal Artillery into a "car brigade", essentially horse artillery, under Captain W.H. Jackson. The detachment was stationed at Fort George and played a major part in the Battle of Queenston Heights. Two more such detachments were subsequently formed at Kingston. Provincial Artillery Drivers are perpetuated in the Canadian Army by some reserve units such as the 10 Battery, 56th Field Artillery, RCA. Provincial Dragoons Also known as Merritt's troop, after its first commander, Captain William Hamilton Merritt. When raised in June 1813, it numbered two subalterns, one sergeant major, three sergeants, two corporals, one trumpeter and forty troopers, who were all who could afford to keep their own horses. Served on the Niagara peninsula. The Provincial Dragoons would later be seen as an ancestral unit of the 2nd/10th Dragoons, which currently exists today as 10th Field Battery, 56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA in St. Catharines, Ontario. Part-time militia Lower Canada The French-speaking population of Lower Canada had a long tradition of service in the militia. In 1812, Sir George Prévost disparagingly referred to the Lower Canada militia as "a mere posse, ill-arm'd and without discipline". However, one British medical officer (William "Tiger" Dunlop) commented on seeing several units turned out for duty in late 1813, They had all a serviceable effective appearance - had been pretty well drilled, and their arms being direct from the tower, were in perfectly good order, nor had they the mobbish appearance that such a levy in any other country would have had. Their