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The Battle of Tippecanoe was the end of his dream of a Native American confederacy. The defeat at Tippecanoe prompted Tecumseh to ally his remaining forces with Great Britain during the War of 1812, where they would play an integral role in the British military success in the Great Lakes region in the coming years.
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President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the beginning of the War of 1812.
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The Siege of Fort of Mackinac was one of the first engagements of the War of 1812. A British and Native American force captured the island soon after the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States.
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The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major battle in the War of 1812. Resulting in a British victory, it took place on 13 October 1812 near Queenston, Upper Canada.
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The Battle of River Raisin marked the culmination of the American campaign to take Fort Detroit and invade Canada in late 1812 and early 1813.
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The Siege of Fort Meigs took place during the War of 1812, in northwestern Ohio. A small British army with support from Indians attempted to capture the recently constructed fort to forestall an American offensive against Detroit, which the British had captured the previous year.
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After American forces on Lake Ontario tried to break the stalemate by attacking a British shipyard at the small town of York, the British decided to launch their own raid on Sackets Harbor.
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The Battle of the Thames was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies. It took place on October 5, 1813 in Upper Canada, near Chatham.
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The Capture of Fort Niagara took place late in 1813, during the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States. The American garrison was taken by surprise, and the fort was captured in a night assault by a select force of British regular infantry.
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The Battle of Lundy's Lane was a battle fought on 25 July 1814, during the War of 1812, between an invading American army and a British and Canadian army in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and one of the deadliest battles ever fought in Canada, with over 1,731 casualties including 258 killed.
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The Burning of Washington was a British invasion of Washington City, the capital of the United States, during the Chesapeake Campaign of the War of 1812. To this date, it remains the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power has captured and occupied the capital of the United States.
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The Battle of Bladensburg was a battle of the Chesapeake campaign of the War of 1812, fought on 24 August 1814 at Bladensburg, Maryland, 8.6 miles northeast of Washington, D.C.
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. The imposing Fort McHenry, at the mouth of the inner harbor, provided the linchpin for the American defenses. General Ross landed his British forces east of the city in preparation for a land assault. The Maryland militiamen under John Stricker inflicted serious casualties.
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On December 24, 1814, The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada.
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On December 24, 1814, Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty in Ghent that ended the War of 1812. The news spread slowly, however, and on January 8, 1815, the two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements.
