[Repeal The 17th]

I misread the history.
He was killed 2 weeks later...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ross_%28British_Army_officer%29
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..on the morning of 12 September 1814, en route to the Battle of North Point, General Ross rode forward and was shot through the right arm into the chest. Two American riflemen, Daniel Wells, 18, and Henry McComas, 19, were credited with the shot. Ross died while being transported back to the fleet.

After his death, Ross’s body was preserved in a barrel of 129 gallons of Jamaican rum aboard HMS Tonnant. When the Tonnant was diverted to New Orleans, his body was shipped on the British ship HMS Royal Oak to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his body was interred on 29 September 1814 in the Old Burying Ground.

[Cry if I Wanna]

After his death, Ross’s body was preserved in a barrel of 129 gallons of Jamaican rum.

And I thought a worm in a bottle of tequila was yucky.

[SpinnerWebb]

What a waste of 129 gallons of Jamaican rum!

[Verginius Rufus]

I was in Halifax a few years ago and found the cemetery but all the gates were locked so I couldn’t get in to look for his grave. I had seen a photo of it online but there were many similar-looking graves in the cemetery and from beyond the fence I couldn’t tell which one was Robert Ross’ grave.