CHARACTERS

Brigadier General John Chandler

Chandler was appointed a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army from 1812, without holding any other rank in the military previously. A self-educated man he rose to political office from the profession of blacksmith. He lead a disastrous thrust into Canada from Plattsburg in 1812 with the US Volunteers, then he was transferred to the Army of the Centre. Operationally appointed co-commander of the Army of the Centre by Dearborn in May, Chandler was captured during the battle of Stoney Creek. Released in 1814 he spent the rest of the war defending the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.

Considering that the British occupied about a third of Maine, it could be reasonably suggested that Chandler was unsuccessful here as well.