By noon the
British commander, Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost of
Canada, withdrew when it became clear that his fleet was defeated
and lay in the bay smashed and sinking. If Sir George's force
had been victorious on Lake Champlain, Britain could have claimed
all the land that had been seized by the expedition at the signing
of the Treaty of Ghent, which occurred three months later on
Christmas Eve, 1814, and today, northern New York, much of Vermont,
New Hampshire and all of Maine would be British.
~Col. David G. Fitz-Enz
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