Dear His Majesty,
There is bad news and unfortunately some more bad news. The Americans, sir, attacked us in Lake Erie and because you told us to station more boats on the American coast we did not have enough vessels to fend off the Americans and they destroyed us easily. We are bringing more warships to defend the Great Lakes but they will take awhile to get here so at the moment we are undefended. To tell you this greatly pains me but not a week ago General Proctor was fighting near Moraviantown and was running out of suplies so retreated back to the town and left Tecumseh and his men to fight alone. Tecumseh though was shot and killed and the battle was lost. Immediately after the battle I had General Proctor cout-martialled and suspended for a period of six months. Enough with the bad news though. Shortly after the Americans launched an assault on Chataeguay in Lower Canada. It was not a very large battle in terms of casaulties but stategicly it was perfect. It has allowedus to maintain control of Montreal yes but it also showed our forces that we can fight beside the French. I hope you are not too upset by this but I also hope this makes you slightly happy.
Signed,
General Sheaffe
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