War of 1812 Timeline: June 1814

JUNE 1814:  Upon receiving news that Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin territory, had fallen to American forces, the Mississippi Volunteers, a British unit formed primarily of voyageurs and fur trappers, is raised at Fort Mackinac to help recapture the lost post.

JUNE 1, 1814:  British raids on Cedar Point and St. Jerome's Point in Maryland.

JUNE 2-5, 1814:  Americans take possession of Priarie du Chien, Wisconsin Territory, and start construction of Fort Shelby.

JUNE 3, 1814:  The British Secretary of War, the Earl of Bathurst, orders Governor General Sir George Prevost to take offensive action against the Americans with the reinforcement of 13,000 regulars that will soon arrive from Europe.  Prevost will allocate the majority of these troops to the September 1814 campaign in northern New York near Plattsburg and Lake Champlain.

--Brock-Perry