Lundy's Lane
a locality in the Province of Ontario, near the Falls of Niagara. Here, July 25, 1814, an obstinate and undecisive engagement was fought between an American force, numbering 3,000 men, under General Brown, and a body of about 4,000 British troops commanded by General Drummond. The loss of the Americans was 743 men; that of the British 878 men. In this battle, fought against the best disciplined English soldiers, the troops of Brown fought with a valor which did much to disabuse the country of the idea, then prevalent, that American troops could not cope with the trained veterans of Europe.