Detroit controls the Detroit River connecting Lakes Huron and Erie. initially took Sandwich (now Windsor, Ont.), the British captured Detroit in August. Fort Mackinac, controlling the strait between Lakes Huron and Michigan, fell in July. The British quickly used their naval advantage and their alliances with the Native American tribes to seize most of the strategically significant places on the Great Lakes. The British had no naval vessels on the Great Lakes, but did have about a dozen small armed transports.
The Army had an even smaller 6-gun brig, which the British promptly captured. Navy had only one small 16-gun brig on the Great Lakes. When the United States declared war on June 18, 1812, the U.S. Each side raced to chop down trees and build larger and larger wooden men-of-war. Largely forgotten nowadays, fierce naval battles and a strange naval arms race took place on the remote wilderness waters of the Great Lakes. and Britain was a minor part of the worldwide Napoleonic Wars.
Two hundred years ago today, on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed, officially ending of the War of 1812.
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