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Depredations For all the complaints directed at the destruction of property by the American army (burning of York and Newark) a fair amount of the damage done to property in Canada was caused by . . . the British army. As a case in point, take May 31st 1813. On this date the British army commandeered and evicted the Beasley family from its 160 acre farm . . . including eight children for Gen. Vincent and his staff. The fence rails were quickly dismantled and used in cooking fires for the troops. All his rye and wheat stores were feed to the horses and his hogs were butchered and feed to the troops (cooked over fires made from his rail fences). In addition, his entire set of outbuildings and the main barn became barracks for troops.
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