MAY 12TH: The American schooner USS Ticonderoga (17 guns) is launched at Vergennes, Vermont, to strengthen the Lake Champlain squadron.
MAY 14TH: Failed British attack on American naval yard at Otter Creek )Vergennes, Vermont). The expedition had left the British base at Ile aux Noix, Lower Canada, on May 8th.
MAY 14-16, 1814: American forces under Colonel John Campbell raid and burn Port Dover, Charlottesville, Patterson's Creek and Long Point, Upper Canada.
MAY 18TH, 1814: Lt. Col. Robert McDouall relieves Fort Mackinac.
--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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