Timeline for December 1813-- Part 2: Skirmish at McCrae's Farmhouse

DECEMBER 13TH:

Lt. General Gordon Drummond takes command in Upper Canada, the first Canadian-born general officer in British service.

DECEMBER 15TH: SKIRMISH AT McCRAE'S HOUSE, UPPER CANADA--

Following the British defeat at Moraviantown on 5 October 1813, the Americans controlled the Lower Thames River Valley. They dispatched a detachment of about 40 officers and men, mostly of the 26th U.S. Regiment of Infantry to Thomas McCrae's farmhouse using it as an observation post.

British Lt. Henry Medcall and 32 men of the Norfolk and Middlesex Militia Kent Volunteers and Provincial Dragoons was sent down the Thames River to collect cattle and came upon the Americans, surrounded them, killed one and took the rest prisoner to Long Point, Upper Canada.

After that, the Americans no longer stationed troops so far up the river and instead sent raiding parties into the area resulting in clashes like the Battle of Longwoods, Upper Canada, in March 1814.

--Brock-Perry