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COLONEL JOHN M, BROOKE,
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DEDICATION. To Colonel John M. Brooke, our honored profes- sor, this modest volume is most affectionately dedi- cated as a slight token of our esteem and admir ' ation of that brave soldier, that inventive genius, and learned scholar. THE EDITORS.
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Colonel 3ohn M. Brooke. S Sr CTCH. JOHN AIERCER BROOKE was bom near Tampa, Florida, December i8th, 1826. His father was General George M. Brooke, of Virginia, brevetted for gallantry and distinguished services in the War of 181 2. General Brooke entered the army in 1808; was major of Twenty- Third Infantry at the battle of Niagara or Lundy ' s Lane. Major McFarland being killed, the command of that regiment devolved upon Major Brooke, an officer of no less intrepidity and valor, ' ' says Thom- son, in his Histor}- of the ' ar of 1812, and War with Mexico. Major Brooke was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel of Fourth Infantry for gallant conduct in the defense of Fort Erie, the fifteenth of August, 1814, and Colonel for distinguished and meritorious con- duct in the sortie from Fort Erie, ' the seventeenth of September, 1814. He was made brigadier-general by brevet on the seventeenth of Sep- tember, 1824, and later attained the rank of major-general. Fort Brooke in Florida was named after him. A letter of Larkin Smith, himself a distinguished officer of the United States Army, dated the thirty-first of January, 1851, mentions an incident in the defense of Fort Erie, in which General Brooke fig- ured conspicuously. Brooke suggested hanging a lantern within the enemy ' s lines near a British battery in the line of fire, so that our gunners might direct their fire at night as well as in the day. This was effected by Brooke, with the help of a drummer boy. These two crawled within the enemy ' s lines at night and hung a lantern in a tree. Smith says : With personal hazard he reached the enemy ' s lines, hung a lantern in a tree upon the line of fire and the batteries were
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