BRITISH frigate Java captured by the Constitution, off Bahia, Brazil,--Dec. 29.
1813. BATTLE OF FRENCHTOWN, Mich.; Winchester defeated by Proctor,--Jan. 22.
BRITISH brig Peacock captured the Hornet off the Demarara, South America,--Feb. 24.
MADISON began second presidential term,--March 4.
BATTLE OF YORK, Canada (now Toronto); explosion of British magazine,--April 27.
FORT MEIGS besieged by 2,000 British and Indians under Proctor,--May 1.
GENERAL CLAY and I,200 Kentuckians dispersed besiegers,--May 5.
PBEVOST made an unsuccessful attack on Sackett's Harbor,--May 29.
THE Chesapeake, Captain Lawrence, captured by the Shannon, in Massachusetts Bay,--June I.
DEFENCE OF FORT STEPHENSON (now Lower Sandusky, O.) by Major Crogan,--Aug. 3.