Stories of the War of 1812, and the Mexican War

by Anonymous

CAPTURE OF FORT GEORGE.

After the capture of York, General Dearborn resolved to attempt the capture of Fort George. On the morning of the 27th of May, the light troops under Colonel Scott and Major Forsyth, supported by Colonel Porter’s light artillery and General Lewis’s division, crossed the Niagara river, and attacked the fort. Other brigades of troops followed. Commodore Chauncey had made judicious arrangements with his small ships, to silence the enemy’s batteries at the point of landing. The descent was warmly contested at the water’s edge, by the British; but they were soon compelled to give way, and the landing was completed. The American batteries soon succeeded in rendering the fort untenable. The British, retiring from the banks of the river, re-entered the fort, fired a few shot, set fire to the magazine, and then moved off in different directions. Of the British regular troops, ninety were killed, one hundred and sixty wounded, and one hundred captured. The Americans lost seventeen killed, and sixty wounded.

FORT GEORGE.

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DEFENCE OF SACKETT’S HARBOR.