CHAPTER VIII.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S BODY GUARD--DENISON'S RAPID RIDE -- COL.
PEACOCKE'S MOVEMENTS--ARRIVAL OF COL.

LOWRY WITH REINFORCEMENTS.
It was not until late in the afternoon of June 1st that the Militia Department considered the necessity of calling on the services of cavalry troops for duty on the frontier.

Had this been done twenty-four hours earlier the calamity which occurred at Ridgeway and the disaster at Fort Erie might have been averted, and the whole campaign had a different termination.

The omission was a serious mistake, which was subsequently realized.

It is perilous and suicidal to move columns of infantry in war times without having the advance and flanks well protected by mounted troops, and scouts employed to glean information of the location and strength of the enemy.