JULY 23-26, 1814: Captain Arthur Sinclair's raid up the St. Marey's River (Sault Ste. Marie), Upper Canada.
After burning the abandoned Fort St. Joseph, he sent a flotilla of boats with sailors and infantry up St. Mary's River.
They torched the North West Co. trading post and storehouses as well as the locks of the first Sault Ste. Marie canal (built in 1798 to allow freight cannons to bypass the falls). They also captured and burned the company's schooner, the Perseverance, one of the few British vessels on the Upper Great Lakes.
--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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