Seven hundred miles south of York Factory, at `` the Forks '' of the Red and the Assiniboine, twenty-three men located a settlement in August 1812.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.

Some were lightly armed in the War of 1812, sailing under Letters of Marque and Reprisal, when the type — exemplified by Chasseur, launched at Fells Point, Baltimore in 1814 became known for her incredible speed ; the deep draft enabled the Baltimore clipper to sail close to the wind.

Thompson wintered at Saleesh House before beginning his final journey back to Montreal in 1812.

Their marriage was formalized at the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Montreal on October 30, 1812.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

British heavy dragoons made devastating charges against French infantry at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

The redistricting controversy contributed to Gerry's defeat in 1812 ( once again at the hands of Caleb Strong, whom the Federalists had brought out of retirement ).< ref > Buel, pp. 148 – 149

Barnard dined with the Isabella survivors that evening and finding that the British party were unaware of the War of 1812 informed the survivors that technically they were at war with each other.

In 1812, he went to Paris at the expense of the Bavarian government, with a view to devoting himself vigorously to the study of Sanskrit.

Winfield Scott leading a line of American infantry at the Battle of Chippawa during the War of 1812.

* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18. 00 ; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.

* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.

* 1812 – War of 1812: the United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.

They had two sons: Victor Gifford ( 1809 – 1860 ) and John Woodhouse Audubon ( 1812 – 1862 ); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years ( 1815 – 1817 ) and Rose at nine months ( 1819 – 1820 ).

Following the War of 1812, the US Army began construction on " Fort Blunder ", an unnamed fortification built by the Americans at the northernmost end of Lake Champlain to protect against any further attacks from British Canada.

Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.

* 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U. S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

* 1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.

The French invasion of Russia at the height of Napoleon's power in 1812 failed miserably as the obstinate resistance in combination with the bitterly cold Russian Winter led to a disastrous defeat of invaders, in which more than 95 % of the pan-European Grande Armée perished.

A gold cross, five inches ( 127 mm ) in height, was found on the summit of Carnedd y Ddelw above the lake in 1812.

By 1812 Russia no longer complied with Napoleon's Continental System of economic warfare against the United Kingdom and anti-French sentiment in the Russian court had reached a new height.

The church has a 13th century square tower at the western end, reduced in height in 1812 with a typical Montgomeryshire style timber-framed belfry and a pyramidal roof which was re-tiled with oak roof shingles in 2005.

French power rose quickly as Napoleon's armies conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812.

: See also the Second Triumvirate ( Argentina ) which held power in 1812.

However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps ( 1812 ), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play.

After having displaced the British as the dominant outside power following the War of 1812, the United States had assumed the role of mediator in intertribal disputes.

On February 23, 1942, not long after the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the Japanese submarine I-17 surfaced offshore and lobbed 16 shells at the Ellwood Oil Field, about west of Santa Barbara, in the first wartime attack by an enemy power on the U. S. mainland since the War of 1812.

Essex is one of the few American towns to ever be attacked by a foreign power ; this occurred on April 8, 1814, and the economic losses were among the largest sustained by the United States during the War of 1812.

Mills were erected at various water power sites, with the first sawmill built 1812.

Gomersal is known for the Luddite uprising of 1812 when rioters protested against the power looms.

The championship of Khoikhoi grievances by the missionaries caused much dissatisfaction among the majority of the colonists, whose conservative views temporarily prevailed, for in 1812, an ordinance was issued which gave magistrates the power to bind Khoikhoi children as apprentices under conditions little different from those of slavery.

* Hieronymus von Colloredo 1772 – 1812 ( last prince-archbishop, lost temporal power in 1803 after secularization )

Water power was used extensively in the townships early history, with local mills including Sycamore Mills or Bishop's Mills built on Ridley Creek in 1718, Robinett Grist Mill ( 1687 ), Malin's Grist Mill ( 1770 ), Register's Nail Factory ( 1812 ), and Palmer's Mills ( 1802 ).

Due to the advantages of its location, the balance of power shifted toward Payne ’ s Settlement and, in 1812, the settlement obtained a charter incorporating the Village of Hamilton.

The Soke had its own magistrates, who were appointed by the Lord Paramount, acting under a commission of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, as well as under the ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the liberty retained the power of hanging a criminal in cases of murder, which in fact they exercised so late as the year 1812.

After the Bourbon family fled from Naples to Sicily in 1806, and Lord William Bentinck, the British resident, had established a constitution and deprived Ferdinand of all power, Francis was appointed regent ( 1812 ).

After the War of 1812, British and Spanish sea power in the Caribbean and Gulf Of Mexico weakened, allowing a resurgence of piracy along the Gulf Coast.

The New England states that had opposed the War of 1812 felt an increasing decline in political power with the demise of the Federalist Party.

In 1812 the acting government of Spain awarded the order to the Duke of Wellington, an act confirmed by Ferdinand on his resumption of power, with the approval of Pope Pius VII.

The Hartford Convention was an event in 1814 – 1815 in the United States in which New England Federalists met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power.

Number 1 engine, built by Boulton and Watt in 1812, is a single-acting, condensing engine with a bore of 42. 25 inches ( 1073 mm ), a stroke of 7 feet ( 2134 mm ) and indicated power of 38. 6 horsepower ( 28. 8 kW ).

As soon as Napoleon's power began to wane ( 1812 – 1813 ), the position of Switzerland became endangered.