Eight months on
Walking with Joseph
4 March 1813 Russians enter Berlin
Napoleon planning his 1813 campaigns and raising his Army
Joseph still in winter quarters
Walking with Andrew
6 Feb 1813 Forsyth raids Elizabethtown [Brockville]
16 Feb 1813 104th Regiment starts its march to Kingston via Quebec City
Web sites www.stjohnriver.org and www.warof1812nb.ca/ for re-enactments etc
22 Feb 1813 Macdonell retaliates and drives the American defenders from Ogdensburg
for the remainder of the war
Americans also duplicate the march of the 104th with with Col Z. M. Pike leading 600 men
to Sackets Harbour from Plattsburg area.
Ref; Pierre Burton's "Flames Across the Border, 1813-1814" pages 15-33 [includes a map]
for a preview of the situation prior to the start of engagements in 1813
Monday, February 18, 2013
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