War of 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights

The Battle of Queenston Heights was a British victory during the War of 1812 which took place on October 13, 1812, near Queenston, Ontario. It was fought between New York militia forces led by Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer, and British forces led by Major General Sir Isaac Brock and Major General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe. The battle, the largest in the war to that point, 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. This decisive battle was the result of a poorly managed campaign, and is most historically significant for the fact that in it, the British lost their commander, General Brock, who was killed by an unknown shooter.

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[raedenjay]

Age of empires music ftw. The Maple leaf forever!

[planetrockford]

The Canadian reenactors are far thinner than the Americans I have seen in War of independence videos.

[ulnu]

wheres the Special forces unit that countered the American attack and put them on the run ^  ( Tecumseh and his 80 warriors )

[proudguy]

@USMarineRifleman0311

Did the US win the Vietnam war? America won more battles than the Vietnamese.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@proudguy

neither country gained anything. Alot of territory was conceded to the US following the treaty, but neither country's invasions were succesful at bringing the other to the negotiations table, especially after the Battle of Baltimore.

What did happen was 62 American victories to nearly half of that number British and Canadian ones put together.

US = best fighting record of the war

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@aspiringdrummer17

today you say it wasnt, but it was unanimously blamed on the dutch at the time

80% is the official BBC claim

[proudguy]

@USMarineRifleman0311

Amazing how the US can attempt to invade and take over a country, end up gaining zero territory and still claim to have won the war! I suggest that it should be possible for you to be patriotic without being willful blind and ignorant of history.

[aspiringdrummer17]

@USMarineRifleman0311 That fire wasn't started by the Dutch and it didn't burn anywhere 80% of London

[USMarineRifleman0311]

The deaths of General Ross and Pakenham are worth 10 Washington burnings, because they were actual physical military achievements. The burning of the US capitol bldg did nothing.

And if we should talk about fires....no city ever burned like London when the Dutch set it ablaze. 80% burned.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@uafchris

you're pretty cleverly trying to make US troops into cowards despite the fact that they won more battles in more cases and retreated with their units intact.

Then on the otherhand youre overplaying the discipline showed by Highland troops at NO as if its somehow heroic and takes the edge off the fact that it was a miserable defeat of an invading armada of men that failed to take a strategic waterway.

War w/ Napoleon was over before New Orleans...most Brit troops were veterans

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@uafchris amazing how you can repel all the major enemy landings and still loose the war. What a concept.

What incomoptence are you babbling about? We won more battles during both the St Lawrence and Detroit frontier battles.

New Orleans wouldve been celebrated as the end of the US expansion by the Brits had it worked. Canadian frontier battles were nowhere as bloody for either side as NO was.

Mississippi was strategic, Baltimore wasnt.

[uafchris]

@USMarineRifleman0311 The battles that mattered were British/Canadian victories. Whats more many of the great British victories were against much larger US armies; some of the most humiliating examples of incompetence and cowardice the US army has ever seen. At least at New Orleans the British bravely kept attacking and exposed themselves to intense fire and casualties before they retreated, at most of the battles in Canada the Americans just ran like cowards as soon as a few shots were fired .