Catalogue description Entry Book of General Orders. 'G.O No.2. from the 20th Feby 1812 to the 13th October...

Entry Book of General Orders.

• 'G.O No.2. from the 20th Feby 1812 to the 13th October 1812. Commissary Genl's Office'.
• General Orders issued on behalf of the Commander of the Forces in Canada [Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost] by the Adjutant General's Office at the headquarters in Quebec.
• The orders cover the following subjects: accounts for stores on ships, allowances, appointments, promotions, transfers and discharges, arms and ammunition, boards of enquiry and survey, capture of Fort Mackinac [p.146], clothing, courts martial, departmental establishments, disembarkation and embarkation of troops, distribution of boats, distribution of 'Indian presents', embodiment of Flank Battalions, duties of Chaplains, duties of Barrack Masters, employment of artificers and labourers, escorts, establishment of regimental schools, exchange of prisoners of war, forage, fuel, guards of honour, gun boats, leave, levy of a troop of Guides, medical, movement of troops, need for discipline during the coming war with the United States, parades, pay, pensions for officers and for widows of Paymasters, provisions, rations, recruiting, regulations governing the issue of provisions to the wives, widows children and orphans of soldiers, repulse of attack on Amherstburg [p.146], setting up of regimental schools, shipping, standards for recruits, stores, surrender of Detroit [p.163], training of infantrymen in use of Battery guns, transport and working parties.
• The majority of the orders were signed by Edward Baynes [Colonel, Nova Scotia Fencible Infantry], the Adjutant General North America. The name of Major General [Francis] de Rottenburg is sometimes given at the foot of the orders. [He was the commander of Montreal District].
• The index at the front of the volume lists the orders alphabetically by subject.
• [Note: This volume is NOT the continuation of WO 28/303. It covers a similar period but belonged to a different department. Orders for the period 20 February to 25 August 1812 appear in both volumes].