✦ History

Part of War of 1812

Siege of Fort Erie

August 4 – September 21, 1814 · Siege of Fort Erie

Result American victory

Drummond's British besieged the Americans in Fort Erie and failed in a costly assault.

On the map Contemporaries

United States

United Kingdom

United States
United Kingdom
Edmund P. Gaines military commander Eleazer Wheelock Ripley military commander Jacob Brown military commander
Gordon Drummond military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
2,800
Casualties
1,075
Killed
213
Wounded
565
Captured
240
Missing
57
Strength
4,800
Casualties
1,551
Killed
285
Wounded
508
Captured
748
Missing
12

Units

Left Division (Jacob Brown)
Centre Division (Upper Canada) 19th Light Dragoons