{"id":12756,"date":"2011-10-14T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:30:15","slug":"muskets-fired-flags-lowered-to-remember-death-of-sir-isaac-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/muskets-fired-flags-lowered-to-remember-death-of-sir-isaac-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskets fired, flags lowered to remember death of Sir Isaac Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12755\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12755\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12755 \" title=\"Re-enactors fire muskets at the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flaglowering.jpg\" alt=\"Re-enactors fire muskets at the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Re-enactors fire muskets at the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Staff and students gathered in front of the Schmon Tower this morning for a flag lowering ceremony commemorating the death of Sir Isaac Brock.<\/p>\n<p>Re-enactors fired muskets and a bugle player sounded the \u201cLast Post\u201d at the third annual event, which honours the University\u2019s namesake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave his life in a cause that forged the course of history and led to the creation of Canada,\u201d said Rudi Kroeker, chair of the Board of Trustees. \u201cHe was a true hero and we are fiercely proud that our university is named after him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brock died on Oct. 13, 1812 \u2013 199 years and one day ago \u2013 in the Battle of Queenston Heights.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration of Maj.-Gen Sir Isaac Brock continues tomorrow with <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12744\">General Brock&#8217;s October Soir\u00e9e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related stories:<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12634\">Mythical last words aside, Brock\u2019s commemoration pushes on<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12757\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12757\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12757 \" title=\"Re-enactors stand at attention during the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flaglowering2.jpg\" alt=\"Re-enactors stand at attention.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Re-enactors stand at attention.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12758 \" title=\"The sound of drums punctuated the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/flaglowering3.jpg\" alt=\"The sound of drums punctuated the flag lowering and commemoration of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and students gathered in front of the Schmon Tower this morning for a flag lowering ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12761,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/12761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}