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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ’Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism. Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. I. Copyright © 1981 by Pierre Berton Enterprises Ltd. Anchor Canada paperback edition 2001 All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher — or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency — is an infringement of the copyright law. Anchor Canada and colophon are trademarks. National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Berton, Pierre, 1920- Flames across the border, 1813–1814 eISBN: 978-0-38567359-4. I. Canada – History – War of 1812.* 2. United States – History – War of 1812. I. Title. FC442.B468 2001 971.03′4 C2001-930599-0 E355.B468 2001 Published in Canada by Anchor Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited Visit Random House of Canada Limited’s website: www.randomhouse.ca v3.1 Books by Pierre Berton The Royal Family The Mysterious North Klondike Just Add Water and Stir Adventures of a Columnist Fast Fast Fast Relief The Big Sell The Comfortable Pew The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of the Sixties The Smug Minority The National Dream The Last Spike Drifting Home Hollywood’s Canada My Country The Dionne Years The Wild Frontier The Invasion of Canada Flames Across the Border Why We Act Like Canadians The Promised Land Vimy

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The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nin
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Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ’Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism. Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. I. Copyright © 1981 by Pierre Berton Enterprises Ltd. Anchor Canada paperback edition 2001 All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher — or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency — is an infringement of the copyright law. Anchor Canada and colophon are trademarks. National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Berton, Pierre, 1920- Flames across the border, 1813–1814 eISBN: 978-0-38567359-4. I. Canada – History – War of 1812.* 2. United States – History – War of 1812. I. Title. FC442.B468 2001 971.03′4 C2001-930599-0 E355.B468 2001 Published in Canada by Anchor Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited Visit Random House of Canada Limited’s website: www.randomhouse.ca v3.1 Books by Pierre Berton The Royal Family The Mysterious North Klondike Just Add Water and Stir Adventures of a Columnist Fast Fast Fast Relief The Big Sell The Comfortable Pew The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of the Sixties The Smug Minority The National Dream The Last Spike Drifting Home Hollywood’s Canada My Country The Dionne Years The Wild Frontier The Invasion of Canada Flames Across the Border Why We Act Like Canadians The Promised Land Vimy

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The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nin
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