The "fleet" itself had to stay in the deeper water of the Chesapeake and lower Patuxent. The six-ship squadron that sailed up the Potomac was primarily a supporting attack or diversion, and with a secondary mission to evacuate Ross' army if its retreat had been cut off. A squadron of barges went up the Patuxent parallel to the army as far as it could, Williams said. The combined force marched north toward Washington, D.C. Robert Ross landed upstream on the Patuxent River, in Maryland. The largest of these raids took place beginning on Aug. The British fleet sailed up and down the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River, as well as numerous inlets, raiding settlements and blockading vessels. from the north, Williams said, and raids around Chesapeake Bay were designed to divert U.S. Army had proven itself equal on the battlefield by the summer of 1814 - as evident with the Battles of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, Fort Erie and Plattsburgh," he added.īesides wanting to defend Canada from further invasions, the British were planning their own counter-invasion of the U.S. "I think it is important to note that the U.S. At the beginning of the war, many units were not well-trained, but improved over time, he said. The problem came in trying to expand from a 6,000-man force to a 35,000-man one, starting in the spring of 1812. The pre-expansion Army was well-trained and well-led.
Army, given the circumstances leading up to the war - meaning a small Army (described in part one of this three-part series). Williams said the War of 1812 was, by-in-large, a success for the U.S. The Chesapeake Campaign, which ended with the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814, was really a diversion, undertaken by the British to draw the Americans away from the campaign in Canada, said Glenn Williams, U.S.
2, 2014) - The burning of federal buildings in the nation's capital 200 years ago this week was a psychological victory for the British, but little else, according to an Army historian.
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