When the order came to retreat, the civilian teamsters contracted by the British – many from Canada – began harnessing teams of horses and yoking pairs of bawling oxen in the Baggage Park on the flat directly below you. Wagons and two-wheeled carts not already loaded were hurriedly piled with officers’ bedding, trunks and beds, pots and pans, barrels and sacks of foodstuffs.

Marker can be reached from Park Tour Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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