The Burning and Massacre at Lewistown, New York

From the September 10, 2012, Canada.com "American town marks a dark episode of War of 1812" by Randy Boswell.

The December 1813 burning of Lewistown, a U.S. village directly across the Niagara River from Upper Canada's Queenston where at least a dozen American civilians died or were mutilated, a regular massacre.

The American town plans to eract a monument honoring the Tuscorora Indian warriors who helped many Americans escape the slaughter.

Before the Tuscaroras intervened, innocent women and children escaping the town were being killed and sometimes scalped.

The attack on Lewistown was in retaliation for the American Army's destruction of Newark, present day Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

--Brock-Perry