The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle - 1812 October

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This item is a part of the 1812 History digitization project. This project was made possible with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy.

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Sylvanus Urban

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Periodicals

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Specific pages related to the War of 1812 include:

Page 385: Report that the revocation of the orders in council were unlikely to produce conciliation. Report of the capture of Fort Detroit; battles at Plattsburgh and Sackett’s Harbour.

Page 389: On 10 October 1812, Major General Sir Isaac Brock was knighted.

Click on the pdf links to the right to view the monthly issue.

The Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle was a monthly periodical published in England during the years of 1736-1833. The volumes of interest from 1812-1815 were written and compiled by Sylvanus Urban, Gentleman. These volumes were printed in London by Nichols, Son and Bentley at Cicero’s Head, Red Lion Passage and Fleet Street.

The magazine contains accounts of important historical events, abstracts of foreign occurrences, letters from noted figures, articles on geography, biographical entries for prominent people, poems, statistics, obituaries, reviews of books and more.

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