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July 9 After making peace with Russia, Napoleon bans trade with Great Britain.
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USS Chesapeake fired on and boarded by the HMS Leopard off Norfolk, Virginia
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Embargo Act passed by US Congress halting trade with Foreign Nations
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french pull out of portugual
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House of Representatives passes war bill
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The first major battle of the War of 1812 ends in disaster for the United States when General William Hull, leading an American army of 2200 men, surrenders to British forces at Detroit without firing a shot. Hull will be courtmartialed for cowardice and sentenced to death, but the 61-year-old Revolutionary War veteran will be pardoned by President James Madison.
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Indians attack Fort Harrison
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Captain Oliver Hazard Perry leads a squadron of ten ships against a British fleet of six vessels on Lake Erie. A fierce ten-hour naval battle ends with American defeat of the British, giving the United States control over Lake Erie for the duration of the war. Perry announces the American victory in a memorable dispatch to headquarters: "We have met the enemy and they are ours."
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Captain Oliver Hazard Perry leads the american navy and take over a british fort
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The british caputreued washington DC and b urned down the white house
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Teh british attacked new orleans with 7500
