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Soon afterwards the boat touched the beach , where many of the citizens were assembled to hear tidings of the enterprize , and congratulate the captors . Thence he was conducted to the neat little inn , which was the only place of public accommodation the small town , or rather village of Buffalo , at that period afforded . CHAPTER III . At the termination of the memorable war of the revolution -- that war which , on the one hand , severed , and for ever , the ties that bound the Colonies in interest and affection with the parent land , and , on the other , seemed as by way of indemnification , to have rivetted the Canadas in closer love to their adopted Mother -- hundreds of families who had remained staunch in their allegiance , quitted the republican soil , to which they had been unwillingly transferred , and hastened to close on one side of the vast chain of waters , that separated the descendants of France from the descendants of England , the evening of an existence , whose morning and noon had been passed on the other . Among the number of these was Major Grantham , who , at the close of the revolution , had espoused a daughter , -LRB- the only remaining child , -RRB- of Frederick and Madeline De Haldimar , whose many vicissitudes of suffering , prior to their marriage , have been fully detailed in Wacousta . When , at that period , the different garrisons on the frontier were given up to the American troops , the several British regiments crossed over into Canada , and , after a short term of service in that country , were successively relieved by fresh corps from England . One of the earliest recalled of these , was the regiment of Colonel Frederick De Haldimar .