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Black Rock, surprise of.
On July 11, 1813. Lieut.-Col. Cecil Bisshopp, with a motley party of regulars.
Canadians, and Indians, about 400 in number, crossed the Niagara River and landed a little below Black Rock (which was a naval station, two miles below Buffalo). just before daylight.
His object was to surprise and captur lected there by the Americans; also the shipyard.
These were defended by only about 200 militia and a dozen men in a blockhouse.
There were some infantry and
Bisshopp's monument dragoon recruits from the South on their way to Fort George, besides a little more than 100 Indians under the young Cornplanter, who had been educated adelphia, and had gone hack to his blanket and feather head-dress.
The former were under the command of Gen. Peter B. porter, then at his home near Black Rock.
Bisshopp surprised the camp at Black Pock.
when the militia fled to Buffalo.
leaving their artillery behind.
Porter narrowly escaped capture in his own house.
He hast