Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor
The Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor, or simply the Battle of Sacket's Harbor, took place on 29 May 1813, during the War of 1812. A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval squadron on the lake. Twelve warships were built here. The British were repulsed by American regulars, militia, marines and sailors.
Plan of the Battle of Sackett's Harbor, from Benson J. Lossing's Field Book of the War of 1812
Sacket's Harbor
Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost, Governor General and Commander in Chief in British North America
Sir James Lucas Yeo, commander of the Royal Navy establishment on the Great Lakes
The Battle of York was a War of 1812 battle fought in York, Upper Canada on April 27, 1813. An American force, supported by a naval flotilla, landed on the western lakeshore and captured the provincial capital after defeating an outnumbered force of regulars, militia and Ojibwe natives under the command of Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
Battle of York by Owen Staples, 1914. The American fleet before the capture of York.
Sir Issac Brock being built in York. Both sides engaged in building freshwater fleets in an effort to gain naval supremacy on Lake Ontario.
United States Secretary of War John Armstrong Jr. originally planned for an attack on Kingston, but later acquiesced to changes that made York the attack's target.
Designs of the blockhouses that were built to defend York, c. 1799
