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e war. The Americans, 2,600 strong, lose 858 men killed and wounded, and the British (4,500) lose about twenty more; fought from 8 P. M. to midnight......July 25, 1814 Fort Erie besieged by the British......Aug. 4, 1814 Colonel Drummond assaults the works and is repulsed......Aug. 15, 1814 Commodore Macdonough defeats British fleet on Lake Champlain at Plattsburg, under Commodore Downie......Sept. 11, 1814 General Macomb, with about 6,000 men, defeats 12,000 British under Sir George Provost, at Plattsburg......Sept. 11, 1814 Americans make a successful sortie at Fort Erie and destroy the British works......Sept. 17, 1814 British raise the siege after fifty-six days......Sept. 21, 1814 Americans, under General Izard, abandon Fort Erie and blow it up......Nov. 5, 1814 Treaty of peace ratified and promulgated......Feb. 17, 1815 Robert Fulton dies at New York City......Feb. 24, 1815 General disappearance of the Federal party......1815-17 De Witt Clinton e