 By James Yaworsky
Sandwich, in the Western District The competence of Major-General Henry Proctor was assessed as being ‘high’ in Sandy Antal’s book “A Wampum Denied”. Is this a definitive assessment? The issue of Proctor’s competence or lack thereof is a complex issue that has sparked the spilling of much ink over the years, yet surprisingly, a lot of very basic work still needs to be done to give a truly definitive and satisfactory “verdict”. It is my personal conclusion is that while I have sympathy for Proctor as a man put in a very difficult position, nevertheless I believe that he was a very poor general and a rather unlikeable character.
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