The Battle of Lundy's Lane,also known as the Battle of Niagara,was a battle fought on 25 July 1814,during the War of 1812,between an invading American army and a British and Canadian army near present-day Niagara Falls,Ontario. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war,and one of the deadliest battles fought in Canada,with approximately 1,720 casualties including 258 killed.
The Niagara campaign occurred in 1814 and was the final campaign launched by the United States to invade Canada during the War of 1812. The campaign was launched to counter the British offensive in the Niagara region which had been initiated with the capture of Fort Niagara in December,1813. As part of that campaign,and in response to the American burning of the village of Newark on the Canadian side of the river,British forces and their native allies burned the American villages of Buffalo and Black Rock.
Major-General Sir Francis de Rottenburg,baron de Rottenburg was a military officer and colonial administrator who served in the armies of the Kingdom of France and later the United Kingdom.
The Battle of Chippawa,also known as the Battle of Chippewa,was a victory for the United States Army in the War of 1812,during its invasion on July 5,1814,of the British Empire's colony of Upper Canada along the Niagara River. This battle and the subsequent Battle of Lundy's Lane demonstrated that trained American troops could hold their own against British regulars. The battlefield is preserved as a National Historic Site of Canada.
The Capture of Fort Erie by American forces in 1814 was a battle in the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The British garrison was outnumbered but surrendered prematurely,in the view of British commanders.
The siege of Fort Erie,also known as the Battle of Erie,from 4 August to 21 September 1814,was one of the last engagements of the War of 1812,between British and American forces. It took place during the Niagara campaign,and the Americans successfully defended Fort Erie against a British army. During the siege,the British suffered high casualties in a failed storming attempt;they also suffered casualties from sickness and exposure in their rough encampments. Unaware that the British were about to abandon the siege,the American garrison launched a sortie to destroy the British siege batteries,during which both sides again suffered high losses.
The Battle of Cook's Mills was the last engagement between U.S. and British armies in the Niagara,and the penultimate engagement on Canadian soil during the War of 1812. After about a half-hour,American forces out-maneuvered the British column and destroyed all grain and flour.
The Capture of Fort Niagara took place late in 1813,during the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The American garrison was taken by surprise,and the fort was captured in a night assault by a select force of British regular infantry.
General Sir Phineas Riall,KCH was the British general who succeeded John Vincent as commanding officer of the Niagara Peninsula in Upper Canada during the War of 1812. In 1816,he was appointed Governor of Grenada.
When the United States and the United Kingdom went to war against each other in 1812,the major land theatres of war were Upper Canada,Michigan Territory,Lower Canada and the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia,New Brunswick,Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton . Each of the separate British administrations formed regular and fencible units,and both full-time and part-time militia units,many of which played a major part in the fighting over the two and a half years of the war.
The following is a synopsis of the land campaigns of the War of 1812.
Louis de Watteville was a Swiss mercenary in Dutch and British service. He became a major general in the British Army,and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
The Battle of Buffalo took place during the War of 1812 on December 30,1813,in the State of New York,near the Niagara River. The British forces drove off the American defenders and destroyed many buildings and ships. The operation was retaliation for American troops burning the Canadian village of Newark.
Ernest Alexander "E. A." Cruikshank,was a Canadian Brigadier General,a historian who specialized in military history and the first Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
The 103rd Regiment of Foot was a line infantry unit of the British Army. Though only existing for just over 10 years,the regiment would see more action than most of its 100-series regiments.
The Battle of Conjocta Creek was an attempt by British forces under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Tucker to raid the American supply depots at the towns of Black Rock and Buffalo. The Raid was ordered by British Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond in hopes of causing an early American surrender at Fort Erie. On the morning of August 3,1814,Tucker and his men met a small force of American riflemen under the command of Major Lodwick Morgan. After fighting for about an hour,Tucker and his men were defeated,and withdrew across the Niagara river to Canada. The battle played a major role in the Siege of Fort Erie's failure,due to the supply post at Black Rock being able to continue supplying the American force defending Fort Erie. This resulted in the British eventually withdrawing from their siege positions around the fort to Chippawa on September 21st,1814.
Prince Regent was a schooner constructed for Upper Canada's Provincial Marine for use on Lake Ontario. Built just before the beginning of the War of 1812,the vessel took part in the attack on Sackett's Harbor,New York. With the arrival of the Royal Navy in the Great Lakes under the command of Commodore James Lucas Yeo in 1813,the vessel was renamed HMS Lord Beresford or General Beresford,or Beresford. The British detachment on the lake engaged the American naval squadron and attacked American positions in the Niagara region,while supporting British armies.
104th Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army. The regiment had its origins in the New Brunswick Regiment of Fencible Infantry,a unit of fencibles raised for the defence of the colony of New Brunswick in 1803. Recruits were drawn from across British North America,Scotland,Ireland and existing British Army units. The regiment was formally entered into the establishment in 1806 with a strength of around 650 enlisted men but grew to almost 1,100 by 1808. In 1810 the regiment's officers requested that it join the British Army as a regiment of foot. This request was granted on 13 September 1810 and the unit was renamed the 104th Regiment of Foot.
The Battle of Lewiston saw Major General Phineas Riall lead a combined British and Native force against the American town of Lewiston. They defeated the Americans in the area and then looted and burnt the town.
On January 8,1814 a contingent of 70 Americans led by General John Swift attacked a group of British soldiers gathering wood a half-mile from Fort Niagara.
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