From historicplaces.ca. site timeline.
MAY 1ST (or MAY 2ND) Americans launch USS Superior (58 guns) at Sackets Harbor, New York. This vessel, along with the USS Mohawk (42 guns) launched in June, will help restore naval superiority on Lake Ontario to Commodore Isaac Chauncey over Sir James Yeo's British fleet at Kingston, Ontario, for the summer of 1814. (Wikipedia had the launch taking place May 2nd.)
A British expedition had attempted to destroy the Superior on April 25th, but had been driven off.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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