Patrick C war of 1812

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  • Battle of Tippecanoe Creek November 7, 1811

    Battle of Tippecanoe Creek November 7, 1811
    1811, Shawnee chief Tecumseh went to visit the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek triibes, to enlist their support against Battle between Native Americans and Americans that made a hero out of William Henry Harrison who took the nickname "Tippecanoe".In 1810, Tecumseh met with the governnor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, to demand that the treaty be declared illegitimate.

  • U.S. military crossed into Canada

    U.S. military crossed into Canada
    With the declaaration of war in June 1812, planning behgan in Washingtion to strike north against British-held Canada.
    Indeed, former President Thomas Jefferson believed that securing Canada was a simple matter of marching. Raiding occurred throughout the first part of 1813, Brigadier General William Hull (circa 1800)

  • . The date that US Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry captured a British fleet on Lake Erie.

    . The date that US Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry captured a British fleet on Lake Erie.
    born August 23, 1785 at South Kingstown, RI, Oliver Hazard Perry was the eldest of eight children born to Christopher and Sarah Perry
    was commissioned as a captain in the US Navy in 1799.
    Ordered south in 1810, Perry had Revenge refitted at the Washington Navy Yard. Departing, the ship was badly damaged in a storm off Charleston, SC that July.Following his death, Perry's body was transported back the United States and buried in Newport, RI.

  • British attack Washington D.C. and burn the Capitol and White House.

    British attack Washington D.C. and burn the Capitol and White House.
    As large numbers of troops arrived, British forces raided the Chesapeake Bay and moved in on the U.S. capital, capturing Washington, D.C. , on August 24, 1814, and burniing government buildings including the Capitol and the White House.

  • British attack Baltimore

    British attack Baltimore
    On September 13, 1814, Baltimore's Fort McHenry withstood 25 hours of bombardment by the British Navy. the fort's soldiers hoisted an enormous American flag, a sight that inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem he titled "The Star-Spangled Banner."

  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans
    In September 1814, an impressive American naval victory on Lake Champlain forced invading British forces back into Canada and led to the conclusion of peace negotiations in Ghent, Belgium. Ross was killed and his command took heavy losses. With Ross' death, command devolved to Colonel Arthur Brooke who elected to remain on the field through a rainy night.

  • Napoleon's defeat in Europe, allowing the British to commit more troops to the war in the U.S.

    Napoleon's defeat in Europe, allowing the British to commit more troops to the war in the U.S.
    On June 16, 1815, he defeated the Prussians.
    Napoleon controlled an empire that stretched from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast.
    Beginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814