The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-27
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

One of the historic conflicts of the last war between the United States
 and Great Britain was fought a cen
 tury ago to-day, May 27. 1913, at
 Fort George, near the mouth of the Niagara River, on the Canadian side. Just month before the American in
 vaders had captured York, now To- ronto, and the victors next turned their attention to Fort George, the
 most important of the British works along the Niagara This fort was in command of General Vincent, who had about 4,000 troops, although less than half of them were at Fort George Stormy weather detained the Amer jeans at York for a time, and losses and sickness reduced the number of 1 the troops to thousand. These en-
 parked on the fleet of Commodore Chauncey and were landed about four
 Iniles east of Fort Niagara. Chaun-
 cey then sailed for Sacket'ts Harbor
 for supplies and endorsements, and returned to camp on May 22. The
 same evening Commodore Perry ar
 rived there, and Dearborn, Chauncey, Perry and Col Winfield Scott imme-
 diate1y planned an attack on Fort
 George. With their reinforcements
 the. Americans numbered nearly 1000. Perry and Chauncey accommodated the British batteries in the Lady of the
 Lake, and set May 27th as the rate for the attack. General Dearborn was i'll on that day, but early in the morning the troops were conveyed by the squadron to a point a little to the west of the mouth of the Niagara, and were safely landed under cover of the guns of Chauncey's fleet. Col. Win
 field Scott led the advance, accompan- jed by Commodore Perry. who had charge of the boats. He and Scott Ieaped into the water at the head of
 the first division of men.
 In the meantime the defenders of
 Fort George had not been idle. Out
 numbered as they were, they made a gallant resistance, and turned a gall- ing fire on the landing party. The
 engagement was fought out on the
 plain, and for a time waged furious1y. General Vincent, realizing that he
 must retreat and knowing Fort George to be untenab1e, ordered the garrison to destroy the ammunition l and spike the guns. After this had been accomplished the British force
 retreated in good order and took up a strong position at Beaver Dams, in the hills about eighteen miles from
 the Niagara River, where Vincent had
 stores and provisions. As a result
 of the battle the garrisons of Fort Erie and Fort Chippewa. abandoned them, and the entire Niagara frontier was left in possession of the Americans. The American loss in the battle of | 2 OEG G0OT60 was LI11TLy-Cn1G0 A1kl0Q l and eighty-eight wounded, while the 1 British lost -10s killed, 163 wounded and 622 made prisoners.
 Two attempts were made to recap | ture Fort George in 1913, but both failed. In the following June, however, 1 a party of American troops near Fort George were the victims of a clever coup carried out by Lieut.. FTtzgtb- bons, who. with sixty-six Canadians | and 250 Indians, forced the surrender of $50 American soldiers under Col l Boerst1er.
 Russia celebrates a holiday to-day 1 in commemoration of the coronation of Alexander ILL, which took place l thirty years ago. The ceremony was
 staged in the Kren1lin Cathedral at Moscow, and was marked by extraor- dinary precautions to protect the Czar from the Nihilists, who had slain his father. Alexander III was the fath-
 CT of the present Russian ruler.