The American army under Brigadier Alexander Macomb, just 32 and the American fleet under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Macdonough only 30 years old, prevailed. When the British army was unable to penetrate Macomb's defense on the 6th of September, a land battle ensued that lasted until the Royal Naval fleet arrived on the 11th.
Then a coordinated land and lake attack by the British took place with ferocity. It lasted all morning. But the British navy commander Downie, unfamiliar with the winds of Cumberland Bay, was unable to take advantage of his superior guns while the encircling movement of the Army became lost and delayed in the dense woods.
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