...t Niagara (the Salt Battery) sunk a British sloop in the river. Night ended this furious artillery duel. Early in October, 1813, General McClure, of the New York militia, was left in command of Fort George , on the Niagara River. In November the startling intelligence reached him from the westward that Lieutenant-General Drummond was approaching with a heavy force of white men and Indians. McClure's...