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FLAMES
ACROSS
THE
BORDER
1813-1814
Flames Across the Border, 1813–1814
Maps
Cast of Characters
PREVIEW
New Brunswick Goes to War
ONE
The Capture of Little York
April 26–May 2, 1813
TWO
Stalemate on the Niagara Peninsula
May 27–August 1, 1813
THREE
The Northwest Campaign: 1
The Siege of Fort Meigs
April 12–May 8, 1813
FOUR
The Northwest Campaign: 2
The Contest for Lake Erie
June–September, 1813
FIVE
The Northwest Campaign: 3
Retreat on the Thames
September 14–October 5, 1813
SIX
The Assault on Montreal
October 4–November 12, 1813
SEVEN
The Niagara in Flames
November–December, 1813
EIGHT
Marking Time
January–June, 1814
NINE
The Struggle for the Fur Country
May–September, 1814
TEN
The Last Invasion
July–November, 1814
ELEVEN
The Burning of Washington
August, 1814
TWELVE
The Battle of Lake Champlain
September, 1814
THIRTEEN
Ghent
August–December, 1814
Aftermath
Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography
Maps
Drawn by Geoffrey Matthews
Changing U.S. Strategy, Winter, 1813
The Capture of Little York 416–7
Action on Lake Erie, Summer, 1813
The Battle of Lake Erie: 12:15 p.m.
The Battle of Lake Erie: 2:40 p.m.
The Battle of Lake Erie: 3:00 p.m.
Retreat Up the Thames, September 27–October 5, 1813
Wade Hampton’s Movements, September–October, 1813
The Battle of Châteauguay: Phase 1
The Battle of Châteauguay: Phase 2
Wilkinson Moves on Montreal, October 31–November 11, 1813
The Battle of Crysler’s Farm: Phase 1
The Battle of Crysler’s Farm: Phase 2
British Infantry Tactics at Crysler’s Farm
The Niagara Frontier, December, 1813
The Battle of Lundy’s Lane: Phase 1
The Battle of Lundy’s Lane: Phase 2
The British March on Washington, August 19–24, 1814
Macdonough at Anchor, Plattsburgh Bay, September, 1814
Plattsburgh, September 11, 1814
Cast of Characters
On the British-Canadian side
William Adams
, Admiralty lawyer; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
William Allan
, York merchant; Major, 3rd Regiment, York Militia.
Robert Heriot Barclay
, Commandant, British naval forces, Lake Erie, 1813.
Lord Bathurst
, Secretary for War and the Colonies.
Cecil Bisshopp
, Lieutenant-Colonel; Inspecting Field Officer of Militia, Upper Canada; led attack on Black Rock, 1813.
Shadrach Byfield
, Private, Light Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Regiment.
Viscount Castlereagh
, Foreign Secretary
George Cockburn
, Rear-Admiral; second-in-command, British fleet off American east coast.
Francis De Rottenburg
, Major-General; Commander-in-Chief and Administrator, Upper Canada, 1813, succeeding Major-General Roger Sheaffe.
Charles-Michel de Salaberry
, Lieutenant-Colonel, Canadian Voltigeurs.
Robert Dickson
, fur trader; Assistant Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Michigan Territory, 1813–15.
George Downie
, Commandant, British naval forces, Lake Champlain, 1814.
Gordon Drummond
, Lieutenant-General; Commander-in-Chief and Administrator, Upper Canada, 1814, succeeding Francis De Rottenburg.
Dominique Ducharme
, Captain, Indian Department.
Matthew Elliott
, Superintendent, Indian Department, Amherstburg.
James FitzGibbon
, Captain, 49th Regiment.
James Gambier
, Rear-Admiral; British commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
Henry Goulburn
, British politician; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
George Gleig
, Lieutenant, 85th Regiment, attack on Washington, 1814.
John Harvey
, Lieutenant-Colonel; deputy adjutant-general, British forces in Canada.
Lord Liverpool
, Prime Minister, 1812-27.
George Macdonell
, Lieutenant-Colonel, 2nd Battalion, Select Embodied Militia.
Robert McDouall
, Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment; aide to Sir George Prevost, 1813; commander at Michilimackinac, 1814.
William Hamilton Merritt
, Captain; commander, Provincial Dragoons.
Sir George Prevost
, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty’s forces in Canada, the Atlantic Colonies, and Bermuda.
Henry Procter
, Major-General; commander, Right Division, Detroit frontier, 1813.
Phineas Riall
, Major-General; commander, Right Division, Niagara frontier, 1814.
John Richardson
, gentleman volunteer, 1st Battalion, 41st Regiment.
John Beverley Robinson
, Acting Attorney General, Upper Canada.
Robert Ross
, Major-General; commander of army attacking Washington, August, 1814.
Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe
, Major-General; Commander-in-Chief and Administrator, Upper Canada, October 1812–June 1813.
John Strachan
, Anglican minister; chaplain of Fort York.
Tecumseh
, Shawnee war chief; leader of the Indian confederacy.
John Vincent
, Major-General; commander, Centre Division, Niagara frontier, 1813.
James Lucas Yeo
, Commodore; commander-in-chief, naval forces on the Great Lakes.
On the American side
John Quincy Adams
, American ambassador to Russia; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
John Armstrong
, Secretary of War, 1813–14.
James Bayard
, Senator; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
John Boyd
, Brigadier-General; succeeded Morgan Lewis as commander at Fort George, 1813; commanded at Battle of Crysler’s Farm.
Jacob Brown
, Major-General; commander on Niagara frontier, 1814, succeeding James Wilkinson.
Cyrenius Chapin
, Buffalo surgeon; commander of partisan irregulars, Niagara frontier, 1813.
Isaac Chauncey
, Commodore; commander of naval forces on the Great Lakes.
Henry Clay
, Speaker of the House; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
George Croghan
, Major, later Lieutenant-Colonel; commander at Fort Stephenson, 1813; led attack on Michilimackinac, 1814.
Henry Dearborn
, Major-General; commander of Army of the North to July, 1813.
David Bates Douglass
, 2nd-Lieutenant, artillery, Fort Erie.
Jesse Elliott
, Lieutenant; second-in-command, naval forces, Lake Erie.
Edmund Gaines
, Brigadier-General and Adjutant General; commander at Fort Erie, summer, 1814.
Albert Gallatin
, Secretary of the Treasury; commissioner at Ghent peace talks, 1814.
William Henry Harrison
, Major-General; former governor of Indiana Territory; commander of the Army of the Northwest.
Wade Hampton
, Major-General; commander of the army on Lake Champlain, 1813.
Jarvis Hanks
, drummer boy, 11th Infantry.