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People -Michael Dousman -Lieutenant Porter Hanks -General William Hull -Robert_McDouall -Napolean -Tecumseh	Letter: 4 August 1812 Surrender of Michilimackinac Lieutenant Porter Hanks to Brigadier-General Hull	The War of 1812 -Battles -Forts -Ships of the United Kingdom -Ships of the United States	The Star Spangled Banner ...written by Francis Scott Key after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry on September 13-14, 1814.
	The War of 1812. Extracted from AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES - OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY - UNITED STATES ARMY

Map: War of 1812 The War of 1812 [1812-1814] ... On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the beginning of the War of 1812. Frustrated by British maritime practices and support of Native American resistance to western expansion, the Americans entered the war with ambitious plans to invade Canada, a goal that was never realized. Invasions of Upper and Lower Canada, July 17, 1812 ... The British scored an important early success when their detachment at St. Joseph Island on Lake Huron learned of the declaration of war before the nearby American garrison at the important trading post at Mackinac Island in Michigan did. A scratch force landed on the island on July 17, 1812, and mounted a gun overlooking Fort Mackinac. The Americans, taken by surprise, surrendered. This early victory encouraged the Indians, and large numbers of them moved to help the British at Amherstburg. Battle of Prairie du Chien, July 17, 1814 ... During the war, Prairie du Chien was a small frontier settlement with residents loyal to both American and British causes. By 1814, both nations were anxious to control the site because of its importance to the fur trade and its strategic location at the intersection of the Mississippi River and the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a transportation route linking the Mississippi with the Great Lakes. On July 17, the British force arrived at Prairie du Chien. Late in the morning, Thomas Anderson approached Fort Shelby to deliver Perkins a note demanding the Americans' unconditional surrender. Perkins refused and prepared to defend the fort. ... On July 20, the Americans officially surrendered. The Battle of Mackinac, July 26, 1814 ... On July 26, a squadron of five U.S. ships under Commodore Arthur Sinclair arrived off Mackinac Island carrying a landing force of 700 soldiers under the command of Croghan. The force was made of an ad hoc battalion of regular infantry (made up of detached companies of the 17th, 19th and 24th U.S. Infantry, under Major Andrew Holmes) and a battalion of volunteers from the Ohio militia, with detachments of artillery. ... The Americans shelled the fort for two days, with most of the shells falling harmlessly in vegetable gardens around the fort. ... A dense fog forced the Americans back from the island for a week. Upon their return the Americans, led by Holmes, assaulted the north end of the island, near the location of the 1812 British assault. The Americans worked their way to the fort through dense woods which were protected by Native American allies of the British, finally emerging into a clearing below the fort. ... When the Americans emerged from the woods into the clearing, they were easy targets for the British guns. The Americans attempted to work through the woods to flank the guns but were ambushed by the Indians. Thirteen Americans, including Major Holmes and two other officers, were killed, and 51 were wounded. Because of the heavy losses and confusion, Croghan was forced to order his men to retreat back through the woods to the beach. The Americans rowed back to their ships, leaving the fort in the hands of the British until the end of the war. The Burning of the City of Washington, August 24, 1814, ... At about 8 p.m. on the evening of August 24, 1814, British troops under the command of General Robert Ross marched into Washington, D.C., after routing hastily assembled American forces at Bladensburg, Maryland, earlier in the day. Encountering neither resistance nor any United States government officials - President Madison and his cabinet had fled to safety--the British quickly torched the White House, the Capitol, which then housed the Library of Congress, the navy yard, and several American warships. However, most private property was left untouched. In 1815 Congress approved the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's library to replace the one lost in the fire. ... On 6 September 1814, while on blockade duty on Lake Huron, the U.S.S. Scorpion, under command of Daniel Turner, was surprised and captured by the former American schooner, Tigress, which also had been taken by the British a few days earlier. Both vessels and prisoners were taken to Fort Mackinac. The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Flanders (Belgium), United Kingdom of the Netherlands, ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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