Original source: Battle of French Town, 1813. : Major Craig on Lake Erie, 1782. White men as scalpers. Geographer General Hutchins.. Cleveland, Ohio: Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, 1874.
Following the outbreak of war between the United States and Great Britain in June 1812, Sackets Harbor became the center of American naval and military activity for the upper St. Lawrence Valley and Lake Ontario. Sackets Harbor, New York.