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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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Report from Batavia on May 7 of British 19th Light Dragoons soldiers assaulting Mrs. Lewis in Ancaster, Canada, while she was pregnant and in bed with her husband, who was threatened at gunpoint; no significant efforts to punish the perpetrators.
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Batavia. May 7.
Several gentlemen of undoubted veracity, lately from Canada, now in this village, relate the following transaction of a gang of monsters.
A few weeks since, a party of scoundrels, belonging to the British 19th Lt. dragoons, laid violent hands upon a Mrs. Lewis, of Ancaster, head of Lake Ontario, while in bed with her husband, who, with a cocked pistol at his breast, was threatened with instant death if he made the least resistance. Seven of them allayed their brutal desires.--What gives a still higher coloring to this unexampled atrocity. [unexampled except among Englishmen] the unfortunate woman was in a situation requiring the most delicate treatment.
Very little or no effort was made by the civil or military authorities to bring the monsters to punishment. If such civil and military authorities are to be considered the conservators and 'the bulwark of our religion,' then have I done with it forever.
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Ancaster, Head Of Lake Ontario, Canada
Event Date
A Few Weeks Since May 7
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seven soldiers assaulted mrs. lewis; very little or no effort by civil or military authorities to punish them.
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A party of scoundrels from the British 19th Lt. dragoons assaulted Mrs. Lewis in bed with her husband in Ancaster, threatening him with a cocked pistol; the woman was in a delicate situation requiring delicate treatment.