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    The defense of the cutter Eagle was a battle on and around Long Island New York, that took place from October 10 to 13, 1814, between the British Royal...
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    both sides to end the war. The American victory at Plattsburgh, and the successful defense at the Battle of Baltimore, which began the next day and halted...
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    USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere (category Naval battles of the War of 1812)
    during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place on the 19th of August 1812, one month after the war's...
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    retaliation for the raid, the Red Sticks, led by chiefs of the Creeks Red Eagle and Peter McQueen, attacked Fort Mims north of Mobile, the only American-held...
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  • the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile Bay in what is now Baldwin County, Alabama, but then was part of the...
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    wounded in the artillery duel and the Americans lost 11 killed and 23 wounded. The Americans had constructed three lines of defense, with the forward line...
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  • 79°22′54″W / 43.65250°N 79.38167°W / 43.65250; -79.38167 The Battle of York was a War of 1812 battle fought in York, Upper Canada (today's Toronto,...
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    take command at the end of March. Having arranged for the defense of Presque Isle, he proceeded to Lake Ontario to obtain reinforcements of seamen from Commodore...
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    unusual gesture of respect—for his "gallant defense" of Surveyor. On 11 October 1814, the cutter Eagle encountered Narcissus, and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop...
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    the defense of Baltimore. Until April 1814, Britain was at war against Napoleonic France, which limited British war aims in America. Meanwhile, the British...
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