Fallen Heroes

During the early afternoon of April 27, 1813, the U.S. Army was about to capture the town of York (today Toronto,) the British capital of Canada. A flotilla of 14 American ships commanded by Commodore Isaac Chauncey had delivered about 1,500 men from Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y., on the east end of Lake Ontario, to York, on the west end. In overall command of the operation was an overweight Revolutionary war veteran, Gen.