corner of Newark and Queen Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
On 25 May, 1813, the American fleet and the batteries at Fort Niagara across the river began a devastating two-day bombardment of Fort George. On the 27th a large American force was landed and after a brief engagement in which his outnumbered garrison sustained heavy casualties, Brigadier-General John Vincent made an orderly withdrawal towards Burlington. The capture of Fort George left the Americans in control of the Niagara frontier; but Vincent’s troops a week later won a decisive victory at Stoney Creek, preventing the Americans from gaining the whole peninsula.

27th May, 1813 Landing Place of Invading Troops Here was fought the Action on that day PRO PATRIA In memory of Lieutenant James Drummie, 8th Regiment, Captain Andrew Liddle and Ensign William McLean, Glengarry Light Infantry, and the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery, 8th Regiment, 49th Regiment, Glengarry Light Infantry, royal Newfoundland Regiment and Lincoln Militia, killed in this battle.

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