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The Destruction of the Caroline, 1837
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2004
Photo from Google Street View ©2010 Google - Posted December, 2010
Photo Source - Unknown
Plaque Location
The Region of Niagara
The City of Niagara Falls
In a parking area on the east side of the Niagara Parkway
2.5 km south of the bridge over the Welland River in Chippawa
Coordinates: N 43 03.343 W 79 01.577 |
Plaque Text
On the night of December 29-30, 1837, some 60 volunteers acting on the orders of Col. Allan Napier MacNab, and commanded by Capt. Andrew Drew, R.N., set out from Chippawa in small boats to capture the American steamer "Caroline". That vessel, which had been supplying William Lyon Mackenzie's rebel forces on Navy Island, was moored at Fort Schlosser, N.Y. There she was boarded by Drew's men, her crew killed or driven ashore, and after an unsuccessful attempt to start the engines, her captors set the ship afire and left her to sink in the Niagara River. This action almost precipitated war between Britain and the United States.
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