"The Canadian Patriot"
Benjamin Lett was accused of blowing up the Brock Monument in Queenston Heights, Canada on April 17th 1840. His apparent motive was his involvement in the Rebellions of 1837. He was arrested but escaped off a moving train to the ground below, where he freed himself of his chains and fled to New York. After he was nearly discovered, he again fled to Ottawa, IL, where he was caught, tried, and allegedly poisoned. His two gravestones, erected both by his brother Thomas Lett, are entirely filled with writing, describing Thomas' thoughts about the conspiracy to find and kill his brother by the Governor of New York and friends of Benjamin. They go into much detail about the trial, or the lack thereof, perjury, and subsiquent poisoning death. Today, in the Canadian history books, he is seen as a terrorist and political extremist. You decide.
Benjamin Lett was accused of blowing up the Brock Monument in Queenston Heights, Canada on April 17th 1840. His apparent motive was his involvement in the Rebellions of 1837. He was arrested but escaped off a moving train to the ground below, where he freed himself of his chains and fled to New York. After he was nearly discovered, he again fled to Ottawa, IL, where he was caught, tried, and allegedly poisoned. His two gravestones, erected both by his brother Thomas Lett, are entirely filled with writing, describing Thomas' thoughts about the conspiracy to find and kill his brother by the Governor of New York and friends of Benjamin. They go into much detail about the trial, or the lack thereof, perjury, and subsiquent poisoning death. Today, in the Canadian history books, he is seen as a terrorist and political extremist. You decide.
"The Canadian Patriot"
Benjamin Lett was accused of blowing up the Brock Monument in Queenston Heights, Canada on April 17th 1840. His apparent motive was his involvement in the Rebellions of 1837. He was arrested but escaped off a moving train to the ground below, where he freed himself of his chains and fled to New York. After he was nearly discovered, he again fled to Ottawa, IL, where he was caught, tried, and allegedly poisoned. His two gravestones, erected both by his brother Thomas Lett, are entirely filled with writing, describing Thomas' thoughts about the conspiracy to find and kill his brother by the Governor of New York and friends of Benjamin. They go into much detail about the trial, or the lack thereof, perjury, and subsiquent poisoning death. Today, in the Canadian history books, he is seen as a terrorist and political extremist. You decide.
Benjamin Lett was accused of blowing up the Brock Monument in Queenston Heights, Canada on April 17th 1840. His apparent motive was his involvement in the Rebellions of 1837. He was arrested but escaped off a moving train to the ground below, where he freed himself of his chains and fled to New York. After he was nearly discovered, he again fled to Ottawa, IL, where he was caught, tried, and allegedly poisoned. His two gravestones, erected both by his brother Thomas Lett, are entirely filled with writing, describing Thomas' thoughts about the conspiracy to find and kill his brother by the Governor of New York and friends of Benjamin. They go into much detail about the trial, or the lack thereof, perjury, and subsiquent poisoning death. Today, in the Canadian history books, he is seen as a terrorist and political extremist. You decide.
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