American attack on Canada stalls at Lundy's Lane; both armies bleed through the night

By the summer of 1814, American forces had invaded Upper Canada again, hoping to succeed where earlier campaigns had failed. On July 25, near Niagara Falls, they collided with British and Canadian troops at Lundy's Lane in a battle that ran past midnight, guns firing at close enough range that gunners were bayoneted mid-load. General Jacob Brown ordered an assault on the British artillery, and the officer given the task answered simply, "I'll try, Sir." Roughly 1,720 men were killed, wounded, or captured, and the exhausted American army withdrew, its invasion of Canada repulsed once more…