No. 381
HORSE-GUARDS,
November 27, 1815

AT a General Court Martial, held at Quebec on the 17th of July, 1815, and continued by adjournments to the 1st of August following, Lieutenant Benoit Bender, of the 41st Regiment, was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charges - Viz:

1st . “For misbehaving before the Enemy in “Action, on or about the 22d January, 1813, at “or near the River Raisin, in the Michigan “Territory, in the United States of America, by “concealing himself, while the Detachment of “His Majesty’s Troops, with which he was “serving, was engaged with the Enemy.”

2d. “For misbehaving before the Enemy in “Action, on or about the 2d August, 1813, at or “near Fort Sandusky, in the United States of “America, by concealing himself in the Rear, “while the Detachment of His Majesty’s Troops, “with which he was serving, had advanced, and “was engaged with the Enemy.”

Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision:

“The Court having duly weighed and considered the Evidence adduced in support of the Prosecution, as well as what the Prisoner has alleged in his defence, is of opinion, that the Prisoner, Lieutenant Benoit Bender, of the 41st Regiment of Foot, is Not Guilty of either of the Charges preferred against him, and the Court doth therefore honourably acquit him of the same.”
The Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty to approve

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and confirm the Fnding and Sentence of the Court, and the Commander in Chief directs, that the foregoing charges preferred against Lieutenant Bender, together with the Finding and Sentence of the Court shall be entered in the General Order Book, and read at the Head of every Regiment in His Majesty’s Service.


By Command of His Royal Highness,
The Commander in Chief,
HARRY CALVERT,
Adjutant General.