it. A number of Canadian volunteers did fight side by side with the New York Militia fighting the British before withdrawing back from the field making the British victors. Though the British won the engagement, they suffered many casualties. Raid on Saint David’s On July 22, 1814. Joseph Wilcocks with 200-300 men which included American dragoons made a surprise raid on Saint David’s where there were 4 Canadian militiamen. The Americans under Wilcocks came around by the mountain and surrounded the house where the Canadian militiamen were staying. The Canadian militiamen fired through the windows with their muskets killing 1 American dragoon and wounding a few horses. The Canadian militiamen refused to surrender until the American dragoon captain Harrison stepped forward into the open and persuaded the Canadian militiamen to surrender. The Canadian militia surrendered. Joseph Wilcocks and his fellow American raiders destroyed the house that the Canadian militia took shelter in. Then Wilcocks and his fellow raiders withdrew back to American territory with their 4 Canadian prisoners. Marked for treason In the spring of 1814 fifteen Upper Canadians, including Willcocks, were charged with high treason as part of the Ancaster Bloody Assize. Death On September 4, 1814, during the Siege of Fort Erie. Joseph Willocks led a sortie against a British battery. After 6 hours of fighting, the sortie raiding force under Joseph Wilocks withdrew with Joseph getting killed. His body was buried initially in "the circle or open square of that village (Buffalo, New York)" and reburied in Forest Lawn Cemetery in the 1830s. Further reading William Renwick Riddell (1927) Joseph Willcocks: Sheriff, Member of Parliament and Traitor, Toronto. Donald Graves (1982) Joseph Willcocks and the Canadian Volunteers: An Account of Political Disaffection in Upper Canada during the War of 1812, Carleton University. Pierre Berton (1980), The Invasion of Canada, 1812—1813, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Pierre Berton (1981), Flames across the Border, 1813—1814, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Notes 1773 births 1814 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada Canadian people of the War of 1812 Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario British defectors to the United States People from Niagara-on-the-Lake Deaths by firearm in Ontario Burials at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo) Immigrants to Upper Canada