Combat· War of 1812
Niagara Frontier Campaign
The Niagara Frontier Campaign was the American effort to wrest Upper Canada from Britain along the Niagara River and the shore of Lake Ontario.
Marines served aboard Commodore Isaac Chauncey's Lake Ontario squadron, taking part in the amphibious operations that defined the campaign: the capture of York, the modern Toronto, in April 1813, where landing parties seized the provincial capital and burned its public buildings; the capture of Fort George in May 1813; and the defense of Sackett's Harbor against a British counterstroke. Marine work ran to shipboard combat, covering the boat landings, and serving in shore parties. The campaign produced a seesaw of American advances and British counterattacks with no decisive result, but the experience and the control it contested on Lake Ontario helped set the stage for the harder-fought campaigns of 1814.
Engagements in this conflict (5) Podcast episodes on War of 1812
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