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...duty, to him and to England. "Every means of distressing America must meet with my concurrence," he wrote Lord North last year, "as it tends to bringing them to feel the necessity of returning to their duty." He quoted to North with approval the opinion of Major General Frederick Haldimand, one of the government's leading experts on America, that "nothing but force can bring them to reason ... and till they have suffered for their conduct, it would be dangerous to give ear to any propositions they might transmit...
Jumping the Fence. By no means all the deserters were French Canadians. At least 600 members of the Oxford Rifles, transferred to London, Ont., from the West Coast at year's end and headed for overseas duty, did not return from leaves. When members of the Dufferin & Haldimand Rifles were rushed to fill the Oxford's ranks, at least 100 of them went A.W.O.L. by scrambling over a 6 ft. fence...
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