When the first lieutenant of the winning side was wounded, the militia officer Robert Irvine was forced to take command, after that army had stripped the cannon at Fort Malden.
A visit to the site of this battle, which is identified as Maiden Island, is recounted in "Two Weeks in the Wilderness" by Alexis de Tocqueville. When the first lieutenant of the winning side was wounded, the militia officer Robert Irvine was forced to take command, after that army had stripped the cannon at Fort Malden. During the departure from Black Rock, a thick fog briefly came to the aid of Robert Barclay. The other side's commander transferred to the Niagra after the flagship Lawrence was damaged; both of those ships were part of a ten-ship fleet hastily constructed at Put-In Bay, Ohio. FTP, name this battle that decided the Northwest phase of the War of 1812 as Oliver Hazard Perry destroyed the British fleet on the namesake body of water.
A visit to the site of this battle, which is identified as Maiden Island, is recounted in "Two Weeks in the Wilderness" by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Battle of {Lake Erie}