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The ladders were too short

A coloured photograph of re-enactor soldiers in a ditch before a stone wall scrambling up a wooden ladder.

Sarah Brown, Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada for the Forty-first Regiment, fortyfirst.org.

Re-enactors demonstrate a critical problem at the Siege of Fort Erie. Royal Engineers had miscalculated the height of ladders needed to scale the walls.