Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814)

Battle of Lacolle Mill
Part of the War of 1812
Île aux Noix Blockhouse at Lacolle
Date March 30, 1814 Location Lacolle, Quebec Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom  Lower Canada	United States
Commanders and leaders
Richard Handcock	James Wilkinson
Strength
500	4,000
Casualties and losses
11 killed 46 wounded 4 missing Total: 61	41 killed 213 wounded 13 missing Total: 267
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Battle of Lacolle National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1923

41 killed
213 wounded
13 missing
Total: 267

The Battle of Lacolle Mill was fought on 30 March 1814 during the War of 1812. The small garrison of a British outpost position, aided by reinforcements, fought off a large American attack.

After the St. Lawrence campaign had ended late the previous year with the British victory at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, the defeated American Army under Major General James Wilkinson went into winter quarters at French Mills, New York, only just inside the United States. The British commanders feared that the Americans could threaten the British line of communication along the St. Lawrence River from this position, but Wilkinson made no attempt to do so. His army arrived at French Mills with few supplies, and because of poor roads, lack of transport and draught animals and inefficiency of the Quartermaster General's Department, it was almost impossible to supply the army in this advanced position. Sickness rapidly increased until there were no less than 450 sick in squalid conditions in a hospital in Malone, New York and many more in French Mills.

Finally, in late January, Secretary of War John Armstrong ordered Wilkinson to detach a division numbering 2,000 men under Brigadier General Jacob Brown to Sackett's Harbor, New York, and fall back with the main body (about 4,000 fit men) to Plattsburgh, New York on Lake Champlain, while the sick and wounded were removed to Burlington, Vermont. British troops followed up almost to Plattsburgh, recovering large quantities of supplies from settlements in New York state such as Malone and Four Corners and paroling many sick American soldiers who fell into their hands, before withdrawing.

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