)On the British side, the effort required to ship all the ordnance and naval stores up the Saint Lawrence prevented them from deploying sufficiently large numbers of troops in Upper Canada.Prevost once reported paying £1,000 to transport to Kingston one monstrous cable for the ship of the line "Saint Lawrence", and complained that the demands of Yeo's squadron pre-empted the entire transport service up the Saint Lawrence during the later months of 1814.