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War of 1812

The Battle of Queenston Heights

Date	June 18 1812–December 24 1814 (officially) June 18 1812-February 12 1815 (unofficially)
Location	Eastern and Central North America, Gulf Coast, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Result	Treaty of Ghent, status quo ante bellum

Belligerents

United States
* and some Native American Allies

British Empire:

United Kingdom

The Canadian Provinces
File:Bandera Eastern Shawnee.png Eastern Woodland Indians

Commanders and leaders

James Madison

Henry Dearborn

Jacob Brown

Winfield Scott

Andrew Jackson

George Prevost

Isaac Brock†
File:Bandera Eastern Shawnee.png Tecumseh†

Strength

•United States
Regular Army: 6,686 (at start of war) 35,800 (at war's end)
•Rangers: 3,049
•Militia: 458,463*
•US Navy: (at start of war):
•Frigates:6
•Other vessels: 14
•Indigenous peoples

•British Empire
British Army: 6,034 (at start of war) 48,163 (at war's end)
•Provincial Regulars: 10,000
•Militia: 4,000
•Royal Navy & Royal Marines:
•Ships of the Line: 11
•Frigates: 34
•Other vessels: 52
•Provincial Marine: unknown
•Indigenous peoples: 3,500

Casualties and losses

Killed or wounded: 6,765
Disease and other: 17,205
Civilian: presumably 500

Killed or wounded: 4,400
Disease and other: unknown
Civilian: unknown

Very few militia members left their homes to fight in the war's campaigns

v t e St. Lawrence/Lake Ontario frontier
1812 1st Sacket's Harbor Matilda Gananoque 1st Ogdensburg St. Regis Kingston French Mills 1st Lacolle Mills Lake Ontario 1813 Elizabethtown Ogdensburg York 2nd Sacket's Harbor Sodus Philipsburg Chateauguay Point Iroquois Doran's Farm Hoople's Creek Crysler's Farm Cornwall 1814 Madrid Salmon River 2nd Lacolle Mills Fort Oswego Big Sandy Creek Plattsburgh

St. Lawrence/Lake Ontario frontier

1812

1813

1814

v t e Niagara Frontier
1812 Capture of HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit Queenston Heights Frenchman's Creek 1813 Fort George Stoney Creek Beaver Dams Fort Schlosser Ball's Farm Black Rock Nanticoke Creek 1st Fort Niagara Lewiston Buffalo 1814 2nd Fort Niagara Port Dover 1st Fort Erie Chippawa Lundy's Lane Conjocta Creek 2nd Fort Erie Cook's Mills

Niagara Frontier

1812

1813

1814

v t e Great Lakes / Old Northwest theater
1811 Tippecanoe 1812 River Canard Fort Mackinac (1812) Brownstown Maguaga Fort Dearborn Detroit Credit Island Fort Harrison Copus massacre Fort Wayne Wild Cat Creek Mississinewa 1813 Frenchtown Africa Point Tipton's Island Fort Meigs Fort Stephenson Lake Erie Thames McCrae's House 1814 Longwoods Prairie du Chien Rock Island Rapids Mackinac Island (1814) Lake Huron Malcolm's Mills

Great Lakes /
Old Northwest theater

1811

Tippecanoe

1812

1813

1814

v t e Chesapeake campaign 1813–1814
1813 Havre de Grace Craney Island Ocracoke 1st St. Michaels 2nd St. Michaels 1814 Chesconessex Creek Bladensburg Washington Alexandria Caulk's Field North Point McHenry Farnham Church

Chesapeake campaign
1813–1814

1813

1814

v t e Gulf theater 1813–1815
Prelude Tecumseh Creeks 1813 Fort Charlotte 1814 1st Fort Bowyer Pensacola Lake Borgne Villeré Plantation 1815 New Orleans Fort St. Philip 2nd Fort Bowyer

Gulf theater
1813–1815

Prelude

1813

Fort Charlotte

1814

1815

America Won. JEOAY!