What Actually Happened at the Wooden Bridge 200 Years Ago?-- Part 2

Author Marty Gervais who wrote "The Other Windsor: Forgotten Stories" thinks that perhaps they weren't those mighty heroes. Essex County decided to name the replacement bridge at the site over the River Canard "The Hancock and Dean 1812 Bridge to Nationhood."

Gervais claims that he has come across a story that the two British soldiers on sentry duty there were drunk and had passed out at the time the Americans crossed.

James Hancock became the first casulaty of the war and John Dean was wounded and captured.

Dean later was released and rejoined the British Army, but was captured again and this time deserted. He is lost in history from then on.

Heroes Ir Drubks?  --Brock-Perry