A history of the United States . n the dis-patch : We have met the enemy and they areours. Two ships, two brigs, and one destruction of the British fleet on Lake Erie causedthe army to abandon Detroit and opened the way for theinvasion of Canada. Harrisons force of 4500 men was transported across thelake and landed nearMaiden, from which theBritish promptly with-drew. They burned bothDetroit and Maiden be-fore retiring. Harrisonfollowed the retreatingBritish and forced themto fight at the ThamesRiver. The engagementwas short and the victorydecisive for the Ameri-cans. Among the slain
A history of the United States . n the dis-patch : We have met the enemy and they areours. Two ships, two brigs, and one destruction of the British fleet on Lake Erie causedthe army to abandon Detroit and opened the way for theinvasion of Canada. Harrisons force of 4500 men was transported across thelake and landed nearMaiden, from which theBritish promptly with-drew. They burned bothDetroit and Maiden be-fore retiring. Harrisonfollowed the retreatingBritish and forced themto fight at the ThamesRiver. The engagementwas short and the victorydecisive for the Ameri-cans. Among the slainwas the Indian chiefTecumseh, who had or-ganized the Indians ofthe Northwest againstthe United States. TheIndians had been the mainstay of the British control of thisregion and they now retired from the contest. The UnitedStates was now secure in the possession of Michigan Terri-tory and Harrison dismissed most of his troops. On Lake Ontario the Americans were not so Chauncey, the American commander, and Sir. Oliver H. Perry. The Second War with England 243 James Yeo kept maneuvering for advantage and avoided adecisive action, so that the advantage was now with oneside and now with the other. An American force operationslanded at York, the present Toronto, and burned on Lakethe parhament house, which later gave the British the*s°a pretext for burning the government buildings Lawrence,at Washington. In October, 1813, General Wil- ^^kinson left Sacketts Harbor with 3000 men and moveddown the St. Lawrence against Montreal, but suffered adisgraceful repulse at ChrystlersFarm. Meanwhile General WadeHampton, who had marched fromPlattsburg to the St. Lawrencewith 4000 men to cooperate inthe attack on Montreal, grewtired of waiting for Wilkinsonand returned to Plattsburg with-out orders. Hampton resignedfrom the service and Wilkinsonwas whitewashed by a court-martial. At the close of thecampaign on Lake Ontario andthe St. Lawrence neither sidehad any marked advant
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