Ken Cassavoy also led the exploration for the schooner USS Scourge and USS Hamilton which sank in a storm in lake Ontario in August 1813.
The HMS General Hunter was built in 1806 in Amherstburg and captured by the United States in the September 1813 battle of Lake Erie. the ship lost 3 killed and 5 wounded.
The United States dropped the General from the name and deliberately beached in a storm on the British side of the lake in 1816. The crew rowed to the American side. They returned and burned it down to the sand line so they were able to reclaim the iron and other valuables.
--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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