Peacocke and Gen.

Napier, that they were correct, and did you concur in the correctness of them when you were with me in the customs office at Port Colborne?
Answer--Yes, the general tenor of the report was correct, and I assented to it.
Question from the Court--Is there anything in Lieut.-Col.

Booker's report, just read to you, that places the Thirteenth Battalion in a false position?
Answer--No.
Question from Lieut.-Col.

Booker--Do you think the men could have been rallied after they had commenced the retreat?
Answer--The whole force could not have been, but I could have rallied two or three hundred men around me at any time during the retreat, had I been disposed to do so.

Officers of both the Queen's Own and the Thirteenth were frantically exerting themselves to rally their men, but, knowing that I could not be relieved by Col.