HISTORY

June 26, 1814,
2nd Battle of St. Leonard Creek

Unable to destroy the Chesapeake Flotilla, the British fleet began a campaign to ravage the local countryside to draw the fleet into the open. Barney's Flotilla replied on June 26, 1814.

The naval engagement was supported on land by American Army, Marine, and militia units, including a gun battery at the creek's mouth. Both the land units and the flotilla engaged the British in a pre-dawn attack, and hundreds of shots per hour were exchanged between the two forces. Casualties on both sides were light. Eventually the British retreated and Barney's fleet was able to escape from St. Leonard Creek up the Patuxent River.

Dead Creek

Smith's brigades, fourteen hundred strong, occupied Champlain while Col. Pierce of the 13th was at Chazy with 800 men and about 1,200 men occupied the works at Cumberland head at Dead Creek. Macdonough's fleet lay at anchor in King's Bay while the British held LaColle with a force of 3,600 and had strong garrisons at Isle aux Noix and St. Johns with forces at L'Acadie and Chambly.