I have just finished reading your excellent book The Fort. While you have moved on to other challenges, I though you might be interested in a bit of additional information relating to the siege of Fort George. I have a personal interest in this military engagement. My great-great-great grandfather, Alexander Stewart, served at Penobscot. In a petition for land at Upper Musquodoboit in 1811 he states that: Your Memoralist was born in the city of Glasgow in the year 1766 and served his Majesty in the late 82nd Regiment for five years. He was wounded on service at Penobscot and was discharged a Sergeant in the year 1783 and was allotted 200 acres at Pictou which wasn't worth settling and never had any other land granted to him by the government of the province... In another petition, dated August 7th, 1821, he again states: That your Petitioner was born in the City of Glasgow and enlisted on the 22nd of January 1778 with Lieut. John Moore in the late 82nd, or Hamilton Regiment and served with him in the said Regiment during the remainder of the Revolutionary War. Was wounded severely on the 7th of August 1779 at Castine and was dismissed a Sergeant on the 25th November 1783... According to Sergeant Lawrence's Journal of Saturday, August 7, ...Lieut. McNeil of the 82nd was wounded and one private. As I can find no other reference to British casualties on that day, this private may have been Alexander Stewart. Unfortunately, I do not have Gen. McLean's list of dead and wounded at my disposal. THE NOVA SCOTIAN, Wednesday, April 13, 1853 His rather flowery, and perhaps overstated, and not entirely correct, obituary reads: Died at Upper Musquodoboit, Alexander Stewart. He reminded us of the stars lingering in the gray morning. He was a native of Glasgow and the school fellow of Sir John Moore; enlisted in his company and came with him to America after (sic) the Revolution. Mr. Stewart was the first who mounted guard in Queen Street (there was no Queen street) in Shelburne at the settlement of the town. Sir John Moore found early in life a soldier's sepulcher and has long reposed on his laurels, but the winds of nearly a century have whistled the branches of this venerable cedar. He was attached to his native land and often illustrated the manners of the last century. He was the high priest of song and for many years conducted the sacred music in the congregations of Stewiacke and Musquodoboit. He was the steady friend of Sabbath Schools. His end a peace, and we hope he is a person of regenerated and redeemed humanity. You mention, on page 463 of The Fort, that a new biography of Sir John Moore is needed. I have a copy of Carola Oman's Sir John Moore, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1953. Only four pages are dedicated to the engagement at Penobscot.. Thank you for providing a masterful treatment of a little known battle. By the way, in Halifax there is a plaque on an office building indicating the site of John Moore's encampment. Also, at St Paul's church there are is a plaque and a hatchment dedicated to Brigadier General Francis McLean. My best Regards, John D. Wilson Windsor, Nova Scotia