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        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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