

Navy clashes with HMS Belvidera: An American squadron headed by USS President engages the British frigate Belvidera, which escapes to take word of the outbreak of war to Halifax, Canada. enjoys more success on the high seas, where its warships win a series of single-ship duels with the Royal Navy, and American privateers enjoy an early and rich harvest of unsuspecting British merchant ships. invasion of Canada by badly trained and poorly led American forces, which fails on all three fronts. The war begins with a poorly-coordinated three-pronged U.S. This detailed chronology tracks the war’s many battles and the results of each of those battles. The high seas are considered an eighth theater of the war, but ship battles and seizures of merchant ships occurred around the world, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific.

Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain-Richelieu, along coastal Maine, in the Chesapeake Bay, on the Gulf Coast. Fighting took place in a circle around the United States, composed of seven military theaters of operation: the Old Northwest (embracing Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Upper Canada), along the river corridors of the Niagara, St. Senate on February 17, 1815, sporadic fighting continued over several months in remote locations where word of the peace treaty had not been received.Īlthough USS Constitution’s role in the war was limited to the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, many of the consequential battles of the war occurred on land and on inland waterways. Although the war officially ended when the Treaty of Ghent was ratified by the U.S. The War of 1812 began with the United States’ declaration of war against Great Britain on June 18, 1812.
