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Burning the Dead In 1832, David Thompson wrote the History of the Late War between Great Britain and the United States of America. In that work Thompson made the first claim that US troops burned the bodies of British soldiers while burying their own dead after the battle of Chippawa; this lead to a British retaliation at the battle of Lundy’s Lane where US dead were burned by British soldiers. There is little or no evidence to support Thompson’s claim. Records of the period claim that US troops buried both US and British troops on the site. Several accounts of the battle discuss burying the British dead. In any case, for whatever reason, the British did burn the bodies of US troops after Lundy’s Lane.
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