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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Erie , Lake , battle on. (search)
Erie, Lake, battle on.
Who should be masters of Lake Erie was an important question to be solved in 1813.
The United States government did not fulfil its promise to Hull to provide means for securing the naval supremacy on Lake Erie.
The necessity for such an attainment was so obvious before the close of 1812 that the government took vigorous action in the matter.
Isaac Chauncey was in command of a little squadron on Lake Ontario late
Perry's battle flag. in 1812, and Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, a zealous young naval officer, of Rhode Island, who was in command of a flotilla of gunboats on the Newport station, offered his services on the Lakes.
Chauncey desired his services, and on Feb. 17 Perry received orders from the Secretary of the Navy to report to Chauncey with all possible despatch, and to take with him to Sackett's Harbor all of the best men of the flotilla at Newport.
He sent them forward, in companies of fifty, under Sailing-Masters Almy, Champlin, and Taylor.
Four mile strip,
A strip of land 4 miles wide on each side of the Niagara River, extending from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, which was ceded to the British government in 1764 by a council of Indians representing Iroquois, Ottawas, Ojibways, Wyandottes, and others.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French and Indian War. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French Creek , action at. (search)
French Creek, action at.
The troops collected by Wilkinson on Grenadier Island in 1813 suffered much, for storm after storm swept over Lake Ontario, and snow fell to the depth of 10 inches. A Canadian winter was too near to allow delays on account of the weather, and on Oct. 29 General Brown, with his division, moved forward in boats, in the face of great peril, in a tempest.
He landed at French Creek (now Clayton) and took post in a wood.
The marine scouts from Kingston discovered Brown on the afternoon of Nov. 1, and two brigs, two schooners, and eight gunboats, filled with infantry, bore down upon him at sunset.
Brown had planted a battery of three 18-pounders on a high wooded bluff on the western shore of French Creek, at its mouth, and with it the assailants were driven away.
The conflict was resumed at dawn the next morning, with the same result.
The British lost many men; the Americans only two killed and four wounded. Meanwhile, troops were coming down the river from
Frontenac, Fort
A fortification built by Frontenac in 1673 at the foot of Lake Ontario, at the present Kingston.
After the repulse of the English at Ticonderoga (July 8, 1758), Col. John Bradstreet urged Abercrombie to send an expedition against this fort.
He detached 3,000 men for the purpose, and gave Colonel Bradstreet command of the expedition.
He went by the way of Oswego, and crossed the lake in bateaux, having with him 300 bateau-men.
His troops were chiefly provincials, and were furnished with eight pieces of cannon and two mortars.
They landed within a mile of the fort on the evening of Aug. 25, constructed batteries, and opened them upon the fort at short range two days afterwards Finding the works untenable, the garrison surrendered (Aug. 27) without much resistance.
The Indians having previously deserted, there were only 110 prisoners. The spoils were sixty cannon, sixteen mortars, a large quantity of small arms, provisions and military stores, and nine armed ve
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frontenac , Louis de Buade , Count de 1620 - (search)
Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Count de 1620-
Colonial governor; born in France in 1620; was made a colonel at seventeen years of age, and was an eminent lieutenant-gen- eral at twenty-nine, covered with decorations and scars.
Selected by Marshal Turenne to lead troops sent for the relief of Canada, he was made governor of that province in 1672, and built Fort Frontenac (now Kingston), at the foot of Lake Ontario in 1673.
He was recalled in 1682, but was reappointed in 1689, when the French dominions in America were on the brink of ruin.
With great energy he carried on war against the English in New York and New England, and their allies, the Iroquois.
Early in 1696 an expedition which he sent towards Albany desolated Schenectady; and the same year he successfully resisted a land and naval force sent against Canada.
He was in Montreal when an Indian runner told him of the approach to the St. Lawrence of Colonel Schuyler (see King William's War). Frontenac, then seventy years of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Great Lakes and the Navy , the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gregory , Francis Hoyt 1789 -1866 (search)
Gregory, Francis Hoyt 1789-1866
Naval officer; born in Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 9, 1789; entered the United States navy as midshipman in 1809; was made lieutenant in 1814, and captain in 1828.
He served under Chauncey on Lake Ontario; was made a prisoner and confined in England eighteen months. In the war with Mexico he commanded the frigate Raritan.
His last sea service was in command of the African squadron.
During the Civil War he superintended the construction of iron-clads.
On July 16, 1862, Captain Gregory was made a rear-admiral on the retired list.
During the War of 1812, supplies for the British were constantly ascending the St. Lawrence.
Chauncey ordered Lieutenant Gregory to capture some of them.
With a small force he lay in ambush among the Thousand Islands in the middle of June, 1814.
They were discovered, and a British gunboat was sent to attack them.
They did not wait for the assault, but boldly dashed upon and captured their antagonist.
She carried an 18-poun