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Harvey's 700 storm the American camp at Stoney Creek; both U.S. generals are taken
Chandler walks into the wrong line and is seized at bayonet point, Winder moments after, and 3,400 men fall back from the deepest reach into Upper Canada.
By early June 1813, American forces under Brigadier Generals William Winder and John Chandler had pushed deeper into Upper Canada than any U.S. army would ever reach again — 3,400 men camped at Stoney Creek, close enough to Burlington Heights that they could smell British campfires. In the small hours of June 6, Lieutenant Colonel John Harvey led roughly 700 British regulars through the dark with flints removed from their muskets, closing silently on the American lines. When the British captured both American commanders — Chandler wandered into the wrong line and was taken at bayonet point, Winder moments later — the larger force collapsed and retreated, never to advance so far again…
