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Ship Building Supplies

All the spars (cross beams on a ship that support the outside hull planking), masts, tar and a large amount of timber used to build the British ships in Lakes Ontario and Champlain were sold to the British by vendors in the United States and shipped north via Lake Champlain.

Yes, you read that correctly, materials used to attack the United States were provided by Citizens of the United States. Without this material, British naval control of these two lakes would have been impossible, greatly reducing the supply and troop transportation problems plaguing the US military on all its strikes into Canada.