War of 1812
Battle of York (Toronto) and facts about Tecumseh.
Facts about Tecumseh
George Prevost
Albert Pike
Roger Hale Sheaffe
The lead the Canadians in the Battle of York.
He somewhat failed.
Battle of york
Battle Of York
Date: April 27, 1813
Where: York (Now known as Toronto)
What: Americans appeared in York on April 26, 1812. Chauncey's squadron had a ship-rigged Corvette (which is a boat not a car), a brig and 12 schooners (all boats by the way).
Early April 27 wave 1 of American boats came in west of York. The schooners fired grapeshot's so Sheaffe (Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada) therefore where the attackers are coming from. An American boat that carried Major Benjamin Forsyth, his riflemen only had to face some Indians, led by Indian Agent James Givins, who were outflanked by the Americans ran into the woods. So then Sheaffe ordered Glengarry Light Infantry to help Givins. But they got lost on their way because they were misdirected my Major-General Æneas Shaw.
So then the Adjutant General of the Canadian military took some of the military up Dundas Street so stop any wide American flanking.
Three more American ships landed with General Pike. On those boats there were grenadiers. They out numbered the Canadian/British. American did many things wrong, that weren't right to do. Some Americans put the buildings of the Legislative Assembly. It was said that apperently the American troops had found a scalp there, but folklore had it that the "scalp" was actually the Speaker's wig.
So the Americans took The Parliamentary mace of Upper Canada back to Washington and only returned it in 1934 as a goodwill gesture by President Franklin Roosevelt.