Gen. Amos Hall then took personal command at Black Rock. As dawn broke, he directed a heavy cannonade and musketry at the British. Riall advanced at the center and sent troops to attack the American right flank.
When the right flank broke and fled off in a rout, Hall was forced to order a general retreat of the whole American army in order not to be enveloped. The British followed all the way to Buffalo, two miles away. There they sacked and burned every building but four, destroyed the navy yard as well as three armed schooners: the Chippawa, Ariel and Little Belt.
They then returned to Black Rock and there they did the same to all but one building.
--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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