Book Name : Battle of Fort George
Writer Name : E. A. Cruikshank
Battle of Fort George (25-27 May 1813) was the principal American triumph on the Niagara front during the War of 1812.
It was the second period of General Henry Dearborn’s arranged mission for 1813 around Lake Ontario. The primary period of this arrangement was an assault on York, the capital of Upper Canada.
This would be trailed by the assault on Fort George, the British post at the northern finish of the Niagara River, lastly by an assault on Kingston, the principle British maritime base on Lake Ontario.
The assault on York was effectively done on 27 April. The soldiers utilized at York were then delivered across the lake to Fort Niagara, the American situation inverse Fort George, showing up on 8 May.
Dearborn intended to make another land and/or water capable attack, handling his soldiers west of Fort George on the shore of Lake Ontario, and ideally catching the British post of the fortress.
With the soldiers from York he had somewhere in the range of 4,000 and 5,000 men to make his attack.
The British powers on the Niagara front were directed by Brigadier-General John Vincent. He had a sum of a little more than 2,000 regulars and a couple hundred state army spread out along the whole front from Fort Erie to Fort George.
Under his immediate order at Fort George were 1,000 men from the eighth and ninth Regiments of Foot, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles, upheld by 300 volunteer army. He was in a powerless position.
Fortification George itself was not solid. He was dwarfed, albeit obviously didn’t understand by how much until the day of the actual assault.
At long last, the Americans could decide to connect from Lake Ontario or across the Niagara River.
He chose to part his power into three separations – one at the stronghold, one for the lake and one for the stream.
When the area of the American assault was known, at that point he would have the option to focus against that assault.
