Edmund P. Gaines
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Edmund Pendleton Gaines was a career United States Army officer who served for nearly fifty years, and attained the rank of major general by brevet. He was one of the Army's senior commanders during its formative years in the early to mid-1800s, and was a veteran of the War of 1812, Seminole Wars, Black Hawk War, and Mexican–American War.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin engraving of Gaines as a first lieutenant in 1808
John Wesley Jarvis portrait, circa 1820
Engraving of Gaines circa 1835
Battle of Crysler's Farm
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The Battle of Crysler's Farm, also known as the Battle of Crysler's Field, was fought on 11 November 1813, during the War of 1812. A British and Canadian force won a victory over a US force which greatly outnumbered them. The US defeat prompted them to abandon the St. Lawrence Campaign, their major strategic effort in the autumn of 1813.
Battle of Crysler's Farm, Artist: Adam Sheriff Scott
The American plans were devised by the United States Secretary of War, John Armstrong Jr.
Wilkinson's flotilla off the shore of Bald Island. The force set out in 300 batteaux and other small crafts on 17 October.
The British dispatched the Corps of Observation, commanded by Lt Col Joseph Wanton Morrison, after the Americans heading down the Saint Lawrence River