painting / The House into which Captain King's Volunteers Retired on the Return of the Fenians, 1866

Painting, by George Lee Le Mesurier Taylor. Titled The House into which Captain King's Volunteers Retired on the Return of the Fenians, 1866. ‘The remainder under Captain King taking cover behind a pile of cordwood, and behind houses and fences kept up a heavy fire, keeping the Fenians at bay for some 15 or 20 minutes. About 20 or 30 who had taken refuge in the house of Mr George Lewis the Postmaster fought desperately for some time longer, firing out of the house with the greatest spirit, inflicting heavy loss upon the Fenians. The house was a wooded one, clapboarded on the outside, and lathed and plastered on the inside, and afforded no protection against the bullets, which whistled through it by scores’ (George Denison). Originally part of the Pescod Collection - No. 10320.;