Battle of New Orleans.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Timeline for March 1813

MARCH TO DECEMBER--  British naval forces raid the Chesapeake Bay area.

MARCH--  Captain David Porter of the USS Essex rounds Cape Horn and sails into the Pacific to attack the British whaling fleet (an early CSS Alabama).

3rd--  Admiral George Cockburn's British fleet arrives at Lynnhaven Bay.

10th--  First runaway slaves make it to Royal Navy ships in the Chesapeake Bay.

17-18th--  Artillery duel Blackroot, NY versus Fort Erie in Upper Canada.

18th--  Raid of Fort Vallonia, Indiana

19th--  Sir James Lucas Yeo appointed commander of the British Lakes Squadron.

27th--  Oliver Hazard Perry, USN, arrives at Presque Island (Erie, Pa) to assume responsibility for building a Lake Erie fleet.

30th--  Raid at Buffalo Fort, Missouri

30th--  The British blockade is extended to Long island and the Mississippi River.

Brock-Perry

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