Lieutenant Colonel Bisshopp received a severe, but not mortal wound while on shore, and four or five others after he entered his boat. The gallant Fitzgibbon took charge of him, and conveyed him as tenderly as possible from Chippewa to Lundy's Lane. Buried in the bosom of a green slope, in a small cemetery on the south side of Lundy Lane, a short distance from the great cataract of the Niagara, by his brother officers, who erected over his grave a neat monument.
from "The Pictorial field-book of the War of 1812" by Benson John Lossing 1896
Lieutenant Colonel Bisshopp received a severe, but not mortal wound while on shore, and four or five others after he entered his boat. The gallant Fitzgibbon took charge of him, and conveyed him as tenderly as possible from Chippewa to Lundy's Lane. Buried in the bosom of a green slope, in a small cemetery on the south side of Lundy Lane, a short distance from the great cataract of the Niagara, by his brother officers, who erected over his grave a neat monument.
from "The Pictorial field-book of the War of 1812" by Benson John Lossing 1896
Inscription
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Col., the Hon. Cecil Bisshopp, 1st Foot Guards and Inspecting Officer in Upper Canada, eldest and only surviving son of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Bart, Baron de la Zouche in England. After having served with distinction in the British Army in Holland, Spain and Portugal, he died on the 16th July, 1813, in consequence of wounds received in action with the enemy at Black Rock, the 13th of the same month, to the great grief of his family and friends and is buried here. This tomb, erected at the time by brother officers, becoming very much dilapidated, is now, 1816, renewed by his affectionate sisters, the Baroness de la Zouche and the Hon. Mrs. Pechell in memorial of an excellent man and beloved brother.
His pillow, a know of sturdy oak,
His shroud a soldier's simple cloak,
His dirge will sound till time's no more,
Niagara's loud and solemn roar.
There Cecil lies - say- where the grave,
More worthy of a Briton brave?
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