Lake Ontario

On April 27 1813, Americans targeted Fort York for their first combined army and naval attack. Sailing out from Sackets Harbor in New York the American fleet met with Brig. General Zebulon Pike's troops on the ground compiling a force of some 2,700 men with eighty-five cannons against the defending British force of 750 British, Canadians, Mississaugas, and Ojibways and twelve cannon.

The Kingston Navy Yard National Historic Site of Canada is located on Point Frederick, Kingston, in Ontario. It is a 37-hectare point of land at the confluence of the Cataraqui and St. Lawrence Rivers. The Navy Yard, a former dockyard and naval station occupied most of the peninsula that now contains the buildings of the Royal Military College of Canada complex.