1813 newspaper Battle LUNDY'S LANE Canada STONINGTON CT

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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL War of 1812 NEWSPAPER, the Boston Weekly Messenger (MA) dated Aug 19, 1814. Inside page headline and full column news report on the BATTLE of LUNDY'S LANE . T is also an inside page headline and 1/2 column report on the British naval bombardment of the coastal town of STONINGTON , Connecticut. The Battle of Lundy's Lane (also known as the Battle of Bridgewater) was a battle of the War of 1812 , which took place on 25 July, 1814, in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario . It was one of the bloodiest battles in the War of 1812, and the deadliest battle ever fought on Canadian soil. Background On 3 July, 1814, an American army under Major General Jacob Brown had launched an attack across the Niagara River , near its source on Lake Erie . His force quickly captured the British position at Fort Erie and then advanced north. Two days later, one of his two brigades of regular U.S. Infantry under Brigadier General Winfield Scott won a battle against a British force at the Battle of Chippawa . A few days after the battle, Brown outflanked the British defences along the Chippawa River and the British fell back to Fort George near the mouth of the Niagara on Lake Ontario . Brown lacked the necessary numbers and heavy artillery to attack this position. At the time, a British naval squadron controlled the lake. Commodore Isaac Chauncey , commander of the American ships based at Sackett's Harbor , was waiting for new frigates to be completed before he could challenge the British squadron (and when they were ready, the Americans were further delayed when Chauncey fell ill). As a result, no reinforcements or heavy guns could be sent to Brown, while the British were able to move several units across the lake to reinforce Fort George. For most of July, Brown's army occupied Queenston , a few miles south of Fort George. In this forward position, they were harassed by Canadian militia and Indians . On 24 July, Brown fell back to the Chippawa River, intending to secure his supplies before advancing west to Burlington . As soon as Brown retired, a British force under Major General Phineas Riall advanced to Lundy's Lane, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the Chippawa, to allow light troops to maintain contact with the American main force. Battle Preliminary movements Early on 25 July, the British Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada , Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond , arrived in Fort George to take personal command on the Niagara peninsula. He immediately ordered a force under Lieutenant Colonel John Tucker to advance south along the east side of the Niagara River, hoping this would force Brown to evacuate the west bank. Instead, Brown ordered an advance north, intending in turn to force the British to recall Tucker's column to protect Fort George. The Americans apparently did not know that the British held Lundy's Lane in strength. As soon as Riall knew the Americans were advancing, he ordered his troops to fall back to Fort George and ordered another column in the area under Colonel Hercules Scott to move to Queenston, to cover his withdrawal. These orders were countermanded by Drummond, who had force-marched a detachment of reinforcements to Lundy's Lane from Fort George. The British were still reoccupying their positions when the first American units came into view, at about 6:00 pm. Scott's attack Lundy's Lane, a spur from the main portage road alongside the Niagara River, ran along the summit of some rising ground (about 25 feet higher than the surrounding area) and tfore commanded good views of the area. The British artillery (two 24-pounder and two 6-pounder guns, one 5.5-inch howitzer and a Congreve rocket detachment) was massed in a cemetery at the highest point of the battlefield. ... read more

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