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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.
Fort Erie was the first objective that stood in the way, which required its capture. Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond, the British commander in Upper Canada, hoped that the garrison at Fort Erie could at least buy him enough time against the American invasion to concentrate his forces. Major Thomas Buck was given command of the fort with a ...
Siege of Fort Erie, Upper Canada (August 5 – September 21, 1814): Failed British attempt to recapture Fort Erie, involving nearly continuous skirmishing and a failed assault on August 15. Capture of the American schooners Ohio and Somers (August 12, 1814): Two U.S. schooners captured by the British during the Siege of Fort Erie.
British siege of Fort Erie (2 August – 21 September 1814) failed to drive the Americans from that outpost on Canadian soil, but on 5 November they withdrew voluntarily. Commodore Thomas Macdonough's victory over the British fleet on Lake Champlain (11 September 1814) compelled Sir George Prevost , Governor General of Canada, to call off his ...
modern Marblehead, Ohio: War of 1812 [11] 48 Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States citizens Siege of Fort Meigs [12] April 28 - May 9, 1813 modern Perrysburg, Ohio: War of 1812 174+ [13] United Kingdom & Native Americans vs United States of America Battle of Fort Stephenson [14] August 2, 1813 modern Sandusky County, Ohio: War of 1812 27
A Map of the State of Ohio from Actual Suy by B. Hough & A. Bourne. Eng'd. by H.S. Tanner Philada. Entered ... 27th day of June, 1814, by B. Hough and A. Bourne, of the State of Ohio. Chillicothe: Published 1st May 1815, by B. Hough & A. Bourne, and J. Melish, Philadelphia.
On 12 August 1814, Ohio was captured along with the schooner USS Somers by the British within pistol shot of Fort Erie. Somers was renamed Huron while Ohio was renamed Sauk. [ 1 ] "[ T]he Sauk (ex-Ohio) and Huron (ex-Somers) were taken up Chippewa Creek and submerged in one of its tributaries, Street's Creek, just in case the American tried to ...
Izard later destroyed Fort Erie and returned to the U.S. side of the river. Drummond moved to the remains of the fort but chose not to rebuild it, and the fighting along the Niagara Frontier came to an end. The site of the battle was designated a National Historic Site in 1921, and is a unit of the national park system.