Excerpt from Drummond Island: The Story of the British Occupation, 1815-1828<br><br>Tory is a sealed book. Where once was the life and bustle of a military post, garrisoned by warlike Britons, now are only the remains and sad ones - of the populous and well built garrison town. There are broad and well graded avenues lined with Lombardy poplars, roads upon which was handled the heavy artil lery, great chimnevs of stone with their ample fireplaces. Marking where stood upwards of fifty buildings, kitchen garden plats grown up to luxuriant grass, wild flowers and under brush intermingled with rose bushes which still bear their sweet blossoms, while apple, cherry, plum and pear trees are not infrequent, and still yield their fruit. And at no great dis tance lies the city of the sleeping dead, who since their comrades were driven thence. Have been undisturbed by the sunrise gun, and over whom the winds alone have chanted requiems.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.