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| NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL | ||||||||||||
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| HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE |
Following the War of 1812 there was a new sense of pride among the people in having defended their homeland with courage. Large sums of British money spent on war supplies brought a new degree of prosperity. The flow of British funds had a positive effect on the economy. This war was in fact, the first step towards an increased sense of Canadianism.
" A town that has been in the hands of the enemy and again a heap of smoking ruins, and phoenix-like, rising from its own ashes, and now the quiet beauty of lake and river, forest and plain, rich vineyards and orchards of luscious fruit, may surely justify us...in rejoicing that we have a goodly heritage of which we may justly feel proud." -- Janet Carnochan, History of Niagara, |
| THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF NIAGARA |
On May 25, 1813, U.S. forces after having occupied and burned the government buildings at York (Toronto), set their sights on the town of Niagara and Fort George which was strategically situated at the mouth of the Niagara River. After a heavy bombardment that left Fort George in ruins the American forces made an amphibious landing about one mile west of the Niagara River. Despite heavy fighting, the badly outnumbered British forces defending the town retreated to Queenston and then on to Burlington Heights.
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