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      Painting depicitng British Red Coats on the field at the Battle of Stoney Creek. The engagement at Stoney Creek returned the Niagara Peninsula to British and Canadian control and ended the US attempt to conquer the western part of the province.

      June 14, 1812, off present-day Kingsville on Lake Erie. Brock, with 100 redcoats aboard HMS Queen Charlotte, hurries toward Amherstburg in advance of the attack on Fort Detroit

     

      During the American hunt for the Royal George early in the war, the U. S. Schooner Hamilton came across the tiny merchant schooner Two Brothers, on the morning of November 10, 1812, off the village of Bath, Ontario. When her owners realized she would be captured, they sabotaged the rigging, …

      In light winds, with all sail set, the flagship HMS Royal George ran for Kingston Harbour on the afternoon of November 10, 1812. Pursuing American schooners closed the distance under sweeps, but Royal George gained the protection of her port and shore batteries before they could catch her.

      Soldiers with lanterns patrol Fort Erie in deep snow. Fort Erie was the site of fierce fighting later in the war.

      The British squadron comprising the topsail schooner Lady Prevost, the brig General Hunter, and the corvette Queen Charlotte in company on a reconnaissance mission. The squadron held command of the Lake until the summer of 1813.

      In its wartime shift as a British naval sloop, Little Belt takes a patrol up the Detroit River past the British fort. The small ship later tried to run from defat in the Battle of Lake Erie, but couldn't escape from her American pursuers, nor from a winter burning by …

      Windsor, Ontario's modern street names pay tribute to this early wharf site on the upper Detroit River; McIntosh's mansion, called "Moy Hall, became Moy Street and Hall Street. This wharf and estate for British interests was considered too exposed to American attack by land and sea when war broke out.

      In the first foray against the British early in the war, Fort Malden was weakly defended. At this time, the actions of the flagship Queen Charlotte enfilading U. S. forces along the shore gained time for the British, as the Americans had to detour far inland to avoid the cannon …

     

      HMS Royal George took shelter close inshore near Point Mississauga in Kingston Harbour. This battle could have ended very differently with huge consequences for the war if not for rough weather in the evening and next day. Despite many threats, Kingston never came under attack again during the war.

      During the Battle of Queenston Heights, October 13, 1812, American gunboats crossed the Niagara River at Hamilton's Cove, but several less fortunate American boats drifted too far down the shore and came under attack. The Battle of Queenston Heights was a British victory, despite the loss of their charismatic general, …