{"id":226,"date":"2009-06-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:09:47","slug":"tremendous-battle-on-lake-ontario-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/tremendous-battle-on-lake-ontario-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Tremendous Battle on Lake Ontario – War of 1812 – Team Looking for Wreck of HMS Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"
This month a Canadian dive team<\/span> is expected to search the water near Kingston, Ontario for the wreck of the HMS Wolfe<\/em>, later renamed the HMS Montreal<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\"BattleBattle of the USS General Pike & HMS Wolfe Archives of Ontario, Image S 1431<\/span><\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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\"Universal<\/a> Launched 5 May 1813 the HMS Wolfe<\/em> was the flagship of the British fleet on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. The ship was badly damaged by the <\/strong><\/span>USS General Pike<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> under the command of US Commodore <\/strong><\/span>Isaac Chauncey<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on 28 August 1813. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The ship escaped and was repaired but did not return as the flagship for the British fleet. Years later the ship sunk off of Kingston, Ontario. <\/strong><\/span>
\nYou can read the accounts of the battle as they were reported in the<\/strong> newspapers of the day in <\/strong><\/span>GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(<\/strong><\/span>Tremendous Battle on Lake Ontario – Universal Gazette (Washington, DC) 8 Oct 1813<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>).<\/strong><\/span><\/em> Click on the link above or the image (left) to read the article.
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This month a Canadian dive team is expected to search the water near Kingston, Ontario for the wreck of the HMS Wolfe, later renamed the HMS Montreal. Battle of the USS General Pike & HMS Wolfe Archives of Ontario, Image S 1431.   Launched 5 May 1813 the HMS Wolfe was the flagship of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5282,544,1878,1138,650,1129,1036,1661,2167,1674,1829,655,657,2193,656,1874,5366,1038,27,464,1929,658,494,1069,1961,1087],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-british","tag-ca","tag-center","tag-dc","tag-europe","tag-family","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-hope","tag-id","tag-in","tag-lake-ontario","tag-le-havre","tag-link","tag-london","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-off","tag-or","tag-tuesday-november","tag-us","tag-war","tag-war-of-1812","tag-washington"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100116,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/100116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}