This Month in the War of 1812: James Madison, Winfield Scott and Oliver Hazard Perry

From the American Battlefield Trust timeline.

MARCH 4, 1809

**  James Madison is sworn in as the 4th President of the United States of America.

MARCH 4, 1813

**  James Madison inaugurated for his second term as president.

MARCH 19, 1814

**  Winfield Scott promoted to brigadier general at the age of 27.

MARCH 27, 1813

**  Oliver Hazard Perry takes command of American flotilla on Lake Erie.

MARCH  27, 1814

**  Engagement at Horseshoe Bend

--Brock-Perry

This Month in the War of 1812

From the American Battlefielld Trust 2022 calendar.

NOVEMBER 11, 1807

**  Great Britain passes the 1807 Orders of Council restricting international trade with France.

NOVEMBER 11, 1811

**  The Battle of Tippecanoe.

NOVEMBER 11, 1813

**  Battle of Crysler's Farm

NOVEMBER 21, 1806

**  Napoleon issues his Berlin Decrees.

NOVEMBER 27, 1812

**  Skirmish at Fort Erie

NOVEMBER 29, 1813

**  Battle of Autossee

--Brock-Perry

This Month in the War of 1812: Battle of the Thames and Battle of Queenston Heights, Isaac Brock, Tecumseh

From the American Battlefield Trust  "War of 1812 Timeline."

OCTOBER 5, 1813

**  Battle of the Thames.    British defeat and death of Tecumseh.

OCTOBER 7, 1813

**  Andrew Jackson establishes camp at Fayetteville, Tennessee, to recruit American forces to combat  the Creeks in Alabama.

OCTOBER 9, 1811

**  Major General Isaac Brock is appointed administratior of Upper Canada.  (He is the Brock in my Brock-Perry sign off each post, and an amazing general.)

OCTOBER 13, 1812

**  British-Canadians win the  Battle of Queenston Heights, Upper Canada (Ontario).

OCTOBER 13, 1812

**  British General Isaac Brock killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights.

OCTOBER 26, 1813

**  Engagement at Chateauguay.

--Brock-Perry

April Events During the War of 1812: Napoleon Abdicates, York Attacked and the Dartmoor Massacre

 From the American Battlefield Trust April 2022 calendar.

APRIL 4, 1814

**  Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba off the coast of Tuscany;  Great Britain now concentrates on its war with the United States.  Bad news for us.

APRIL 6, 1815

**  Seven American prisoners are killed and 32 wounded in the "Dartmoor Massacre" at Dartmoor Prison in Devon, England

APRIL18, 1806

**  The Non-Importation Act passed

APRIL 27, 1813

**  Attack on York (modern-day Toronto);  General Zebulon Pike killed

APRIL 29, 1813

**  Raid on  Frenchtown, Maryland, by British flotilla under  the command of Admiral George Cockburn

--Brock-Perry

February War of 1812 Events: France Declares War on Britain, Battle of Ogdensburg, Treaty of Ghent and USS Constitution

From the American Battlefield Trust.

FEBRUARY 1, 1793

**  France declares war on Great Britain.

FEBRUARY  22, 1813

**  Battle of Ogdensburg.

FEBRUARY 16, 1815

**  The United States Senate  ratifies the Treaty of Ghent.

FEBRUARY 18, 1915

**  The Treaty of Ghent is declared, officially ending the War of 1812.

FEBRUARY 20, 1815

**  The USS Constitution engages the HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, not knowing that the War of 1812 was already over.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: The USS Constitution Captures Two British Ships

Even though the war by now was officially over with the U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Ghent three days earlier, there were still ships and places who didn't know about it.

FEBRUARY 20, 1815:  The USS Constitution captured the British sloops of war HMS Levant and HMS Cyane off the coast of North Africa.

Also, this date:  The Privateer schooner Dove out of Liverpool, England, captured the American brig Georges.  It is the last captured vessel to be brought into Halifax Harbor.

--  Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: Battle and Capture of Fort Bowyer

FEBRUARY 12TH, 1815:  Battle of Fort Bowyer.

FEBRUARY 13TH, 1865:  A planned British attack on Mobile, Mississippi Territory, is called off after news of the Treaty of Ghent reaches forces at Fort Bowyer on Mobile Bay.

FEBRUARY 13-14TH--  News of the Treaty of Ghent reaches Washington, D.C.

FEBRUARY 15TH--  Congress votes $500,000 to rebuild federal buildings destroyed during the British raid and occupation of Washington, D.C..

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: War Still Goes On Despite Treaty of Ghent

OK, news was a bit slower back in 1815.  Definitely took longer to get from Europe to North America.

FEBRUARY 4TH:  U.S. adopts second enemy trade law.

FEBRUARY 7TH:  Skirmish of Taylor's Island, Dorchester County, Maryland.

FEBRUARY 8TH:  News of the Treaty of Ghent (signed Dec. 24, 1814) arrives in North America.

FEBRUARY 11TH:  British besiege Fort Bowyer, (today's Alabama), at mouth of Mobile Bay.

On the same day that the British begin their siege of Fort Bowyer, Mississippi Territory, Henry Carroll, secretary of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay, arrives in New York from Plymouth, England, with a signed copy of the Treaty of Ghent.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: August 26-27, 1814

AUGUST 26, 1814:  A British gunboat flotilla captures two American vessels on the St. Lawrence River, near Kingston, Upper Canada.

A joint army-navy expedition departs Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the invasion of the District of Maine.

AUGUST 27TH, 1864:  British occupy Point Lookout, Maryland.

The USS Wasp captures the HMS Avon in the waters south of Ireland.

The retreating garrison destroys Fort Washington, Maryland..

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: Arrival of British Reinforcements in Quebec City

JULY 25TH TO AUGUST 24TH, 1814:  More bad news for the United States with the arrival of these reinforcements in Quebec City, Lower Canada.  They were no longer needed in the Napoleonic Wars which were over.

Contingents of Major General Manley power's brigade (3rd, 5th, 1st Battalion 27th Rehiment, 58th regiment and Royal SArtillery); Major General James Kempt's brigade (1st Battalion 9th Regiment, 1st Battalion 37th Regiment, 1st Battalion 57th regiment, 1st Battalion 81st Regiment, Royal Artillery); Major General Frederick Robinson's brigade (1st Battalion 39th Regt., 76th Regt., 1st Battalion 88th Regt., 3rd Battalion 27th Regt. and Royal Artillery).

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago:Sinclair's Expedition

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

200 Years Ago: American Raid on Port Talbot and Burning of Ft St. Joseph, Upper Canada

JULY 20, 1814:  American raid on Port Talbot, Upper Canada.

JULY 20, 1814:  The burning of Fort St. Joseph, Upper Canada.  The American expedition to the Upper Great Lakes under Captain Arthur Sinclair arrives off St. Joseph Island in mid-July.

A shore party burns the abandoned British fort and the fur traders' storehouse.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: British Recapture Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Territory

JULY 18TH, 1814:

British and First Nation allies capture Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin territory.

Prairie du Chien was a small fur trading post at the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers and was occupied by French-Canadians and managed by British merchants.

On June 2, 1814, the governor of Missouri Territory, William Clark, afraid that the British would use the post to launch an expedition down the Mississippi River, seized control of the post without incident and built Fort Shelby.

Under prominent fur trader William McKay, a force of about 120 voyageurs, Michigan Fencibles, and officers of the British Indian department and over 500 fighters from nations including the Ho-chunk (Winnebago), Menominee and Arishnabe (Ojibwe) set out to retake it.

With little ammunition and only 60 regulars to defend the post, the Americans surrendered after a short siege and returned home on parole.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago Today: Fighting in Upper Canada After the Battle of Chippawa

JULY 18TH, 1814:  American troops burn St. Davids, Upper Canada, following a fierce fight with local militia.

After the Battle of Chippawa, the U.S. Army advanced to Queenston, Upper Canada.  Foraging parties were sent out to requisition (take) supplies, and their unrestricted looting infuriated local inhabitants.

On July 18th, a force of New York militia led by Lt. Col. Isaac Stone was attacked near St. Davids.  Although resistance was expected, the Americans barely escaped with their lives.

They returned the next day and completely destroyed the village.

Stone was dismissed from the Army because of his actions.  This incident marked a change in the attitude of many of the inhabitants towards the Americans and their increasing brutality,  Local men, once eager to avoid military service or even ready to surrender to the Americans, now took up arms in their defense.

--Brock-Perry

War of 1812 Timeline: July 1814

FromHistoricPlaces.ca: War of 1812 Timeline.  The best chronology of the war that I have found.

JULY 1814:  British complete Fort George on the high ground overlooking Fort Mackinac further strengthening their positions on the island of Michillimackinac, Michigan territory.

JULY 1814-APRIL 1815:  MAINE CAMPAIGN.  British Naval campaign along the Maine coast met little opposition.  At various times, they occupied Eastport, Machias, Castine and Bangor.

JULY 2ND:  British raid St. Leonard's, Maryland, destroying naval supplies and residences.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago-- June 28th 1814: USS Wasp Captures HMS Reindeer

JUNE 28TH, 1814:  The USS Wasp captured the HMS Reindeer in the English Channel.

During a failed American raid on Odelltown, Lower Canada, Lt.Col. Benjamin Forsyth is shot and killed, his body returned to Champlain, NY, for burial.

JUNE 28TH AND JULY 7TH, 1814:  Americans intercept contraband on Lake Champlain destined for the navy yard at Ile aux Noix, Lower Canada.

JUNE 29TH, 1814:  Lt.Col. Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor general of Lower Canada, gives land grants along the Grand Portage between Lake Temiscouata and the St. Lawrence River to disbanded soldiers of the 10th Royal Veterans Battalion, "for the purpose of facilitating the Communication between Lower Canada and New Brunswick.

JUNE and JULY, 1814:  Arrival at Quebec City, Lower Canada, of materials and pieces of frigates-in-frame for the naval forces on the Great Lakes.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago Today: June 26-27, 1814: Barney's Fleet Breaks Blockade

JUNE 26TH, 1814:  Captain Joshua Barney's flotilla breaks through the British naval blockade on St. Leonard's Creek and moves into the Patuxent River, Maryland.

JUNE 27TH, 1814:  A raiding force under American naval Lieutenant Francis Gregory burn a nearly completed schooner at Newcastle, Upper Canada.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago-- June 25th-July 24, 1814: British Reinforcements Arriving

JUNE 25-JULY 24, 1814:  Arrival of British reinforcements at Quebec City, Upper Canada.  The downfall of napoleon had freed up British troops to go to North America and fight the Americans.

British troops arriving during this time:  1st Battalion, 82nd regiment, 4th Battalion 1st regiment of the Royal Scots, 1st battalion 8th Regiment and 9th regiment, Nova Scotia Fencibles.

--Brock-Perry

Timeline: Engagement at Chesconessex Creek, Va.

JUNE 24TH, 1814:  British Marines destroy a battery at Chissinsack (Chesconessex), Virgina.

Chesconessex Creek in in Occomack, County, on Virginia's eastern peninsula.

In 2011, the Virginia House had a bill to form the Virginia War of 1812 Heritage Trail to consist of highway markers for various events that took place in the state.  They plan to help pay for the signs with special War of 1812 license plates.

--Brock-Perry

200 Years Ago: Sinclair-Croghan Expedition to Upper Great Lakes Begins

Cont. from yesterday.

Captain Arthur Sinclair, commander of the U.S. Lake Erie squadron, set sail from Erie, Pennsylvania, on 19 June with seven vessels and contingents of soldiers from several regular regiments led by Lt. Col. George Croghan.  After immense effort, the squadron was hauled across the shallows of the St. Clair River and entered Lake Huron in mid-July.

Also on JUNE 19TH, 1814:  An American gunboat force commanded by Lt. Francis Gregory capture the British gunboat Black Snake in the St. Lawrence River near Kingston, Upper Canada.  Gregory is forced to scuttle his prize when pursued by additional British gunboats from Kingston.

--Brock-Perry