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American attempts to invade Canada across the Niagara Peninsula (October) and toward Montreal (November) failed completely. Brig. Gen. William Henry Harrison's move to recapture Detroit was repulsed (January 1813), but he checked British efforts to penetrate deeper into the region at the west end of Lake Erie, during the summer of 1813.
1812 – June 18 – The United States declares war against Great Britain over territorial disputes in Canada (War of 1812). 1812 – July 11 – U.S. troops invade Canada. 1814 – The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain. 1815 - John Molson builds the luxurious Mansion House Hotel on Rue St. Paul.
Siege of Fort St. Jean, Battle of Longue-Pointe, and Battle of The Cedars (1775–1776), actions near Montreal in the American Revolutionary War Battle of the Chateauguay (1813), an American offensive against Montreal defeated by French Canadian volunteers in the War of 1812
June 18 – The U.S. declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812. There were about 4,000 British troops in Canada. George Prevost is Governor. Four Canadian battalions are assembled, and the Citadel at Quebec is guarded by the inhabitants. July 11 – Americans under General William Hull invade Canada from Detroit.
The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [282] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
1812 Jul 12– Aug 8 Great Lakes region: Hull's Detroit River campaign Failed attempt by U.S. general William Hull to invade Upper Canada across the Detroit River at Sandwich. U.S. forces did not capture Fort Amherstburg, and withdrew to Detroit at the news of British reinforcements. 1812 Jul 16 Great Lakes region: Battle of River Canard: 1812 ...
In 1852, Montreal had 58,000 inhabitants and by 1860, Montreal was the largest city in British North America, and it was the undisputed economic and cultural centre of Canada. From 1861 to the Great Depression of 1930, Montreal developed in what some historians call its Golden Age.
The Battle of the Chateauguay was an engagement of the War of 1812.On 26 October 1813, a combined British and Canadian force consisting of 1,530 regulars, volunteers, militia and Mohawk warriors from Lower Canada, commanded by Charles de Salaberry, repelled an American force of about 2,600 regulars which was attempting to invade Lower Canada and ultimately attack Montreal.