Great Lakes and Western Territories Theatre
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Was the theatre od war in the Great Lakes and Western territories of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Chronology
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August 1812: General William Hull leaves Canada feeling threatened by the approach of British reinforcements
June 1813: United States troops held Fort Erie until 9 June 1813.
October 1813: The Battle of the Thames took place in Upper Canada, near Chatham. The British lost control of Southwestern Ontario as a result of the battle.
November 1813: The Americans arrived near Morrisburg, Ontario..
September 1814: The "Battle for Baltimore" began with the British landing at North Point.
May 1813: An American amphibious force assaulted Fort George on the northern end of the Niagara River on May 27 and captured it without serious losses.
July 1812: The British conquered the strategically important border fortress of Fort Mackinac in a coup on July 17, 1812.
November 1813: Battle of Crysler's Farm. The Americans are repulsed by the British.
August 1814: The British occupation of Washington lasted only about one day.
July 1814: During the War of 1812, British Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy led the invasion of the northern part of Massachusetts (Maine) on July 11, 1814. As a result, Fort Sullivan at Eastport fell under British control, marking a significant military occupation by Great Britain in the region.
July 1812: An American army commanded by William Hull invaded Upper Canada on July 12, arriving occupying Sandwich (Ontario) after crossing the Detroit River.
June 1813: An American force surrendered on June 24 to a smaller British force due to advance warning by Laura Secord at the Battle of Beaver Dams, marking the end of the American offensive into Upper Canada.
August 1812: force of 400 Potawatomie massacre the small American garrison of Captain Nathan Heald at Fort Dearborn (Chicago), Illinois Territory, after the Americans were ordered to evacuate that post by General William Hull.
August 1814: During the War of 1812, British forces under the command of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke captured Castine, Hampden, Bangor, and Machias in Maine as part of a military occupation in 1814.
November 1813: Late in 1813, the Americans abandoned the Canadian territory that they occupied around Fort George.
January 1815: The Americans retained the captured post at Fort Malden near Amherstburg until the British complied with the treaty that ended the War of 1812.
December 1813: British Capture of Fort Niagara.
May 1813: The British abandoned Fort Erie fearing the approaching American army.
October 1813: American attempts to regain Detroit were continually thwarted by poor communications and the difficulties of maintaining militia contingents in the field, until the Americans won a naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. This isolated the British at Amherstburg and Detroit from their supplies and forced them to retreat. Hull's successor Major General William Henry Harrison pursued the retreating British and their Indian allies and defeated them at the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed.
August 1814: British occupation of Washington D.C.
September 1814: Battle of Baltimore.
August 1812: The American garrison in Detroit surrenders to British forces.
July 1814: The Siege of Prairie du Chien ended in a British victory on July 20, 1814.
Selected Sources
Carsted, F: The Siege of Fort Erie 1814. The War of 1812 Website. Retrieved on 3 April on https://www.warof1812.ca/forterie.htm.
Elting, John R. (1995). Amateurs to Arms. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 323.
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.235
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Tucker, Spencer C. (2012). The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History. P.255
