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Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison led us into this battle, we were fighting against the Indians. The Americans won this battle. -
U.S Declared War on Great Britain
James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain. This led to the beginning of the war of 1812. This war was fought because Britain refused to stop seizing our ships. -
Fort Michilimackinac surrenders to the British
American soldiers took possession of Fort Mackinac from the British. -
Battle of Queenston Heights
This was the first major battle of the War of 1812. The battle was fought as the result of an American attempt to establish a foothold on the Canadian side of the Niagara River before campaigning ended with the onset of winter. -
Battle of River Raisin
On January 18, 1813, the Americans forced the retreat of the British and their Native American allies from Frenchtown, which they had earlier occupied, in a relatively minor skirmish. -
Siege of Fort Meigs
A small British army with support from Indians attempted to capture the recently constructed fort to forestall an American offensive against Detroit, which the British had captured the previous year. -
Battle at Sackets Harbor
A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval squadron on the lake. Twelve warships were built here. The British were repulsed by American regulars, militia, marines and sailors. -
Battle of Thames
British troops under Major General Henry Procter had occupied Detroit until the United States Navy gained control of Lake Erie, cutting them off from their supplies. -
Capture of Fort Niagara
The American garrison was taken by surprise, and the fort was captured in a night assault by a select force of British regular infantry. -
Battle of Lundyś Lane
An invading American army and a British and Canadian army in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario -
Battle of Bladensbrug
a British force of army regulars and Royal Marines routed a combined U.S. force of Regular Army and state militia troops. The American defeat resulted in the capture and burning of Washington, the only time since the American Revolutionary War that the federal capital has fallen to a foreign invader. -
Burning of Washington D.C.
Following the defeat of American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, a British force led by Major General Robert Ross marched to Washington. That night, British forces set fire to multiple government and military buildings, including the White House -
Bombardment of Fort McHenry
It successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from the Chesapeake Bay -
Treaty of Ghent
By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada. -
The Battle of New Orleans
The two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements. In the bloody Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson and a motley assortment of militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians and even pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way.