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Fort Bowyer
Location of Fort Bowyer in Alabama
Location
Western terminus of AL 180
Gasque, Alabama
Coordinates
30°13′41″N 88°1′23″W / 30.22806°N 88.02306°W / 30.22806; -88.02306Coordinates: 30°13′41″N 88°1′23″W / 30.22806°N 88.02306°W / 30.22806; -88.02306
Built
1813
Fort Bowyer was a short-lived earthen and stockade fortification that the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile Bay in what is now Baldwin County, Alabama, but then was part of the Mississippi Territory. The British twice attacked the fort during the War of 1812. The first, unsuccessful attack, took place in September 1814 and led to the British changing their strategy and attacking New Orleans. The second attack, following their defeat at the Battle of New Orleans, was successful. However, it took place in February 1815, after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed but before the news had reached that part of America.[1] Between 1819 and 1834 the United States built a new masonry fortification, Fort Morgan, on the site of Fort Bowyer.[2]
Contents
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1 Construction
2 First battle
2.1 Background
2.2 Battle
2.3 Aftermath
3 Second battle
3.1 Background
3.2 Battle
3.3 Aftermath
4 See also
5 Notes, citations, and references
6 External links
Construction[edit]
Fort Bowyer[3]
Mobile had been a Spanish possession before the beginning of the Patriot War, but Congress had declared it American territory after commencement of the War of 1812. After Spanish forces evacuated Mobile in April 1813, the Americans built a redoubt on Mobile Point.[4]
In June 1813, Colonel John Bowyer completed the fort. The fort, which initially had 14 guns, was made of sand and logs and fan-shaped, with the curved face facing the ship channel into Mobile Bay.[4] On the landward side there was a bastion, flanked by two demi-bastions.[5] The fort's purpose was to impede any British invasion at this point on the Gulf Coast, as the fort commanded the narrow entrance to Mobile Bay.[6] About a year after the fort's construction the Americans abandoned it, but in August 1814, Major William Lawrence and 160 men from the 2nd U.S. Infantry re-garrisoned it.
First battle[edit]
First Battle of Fort Bowyer
Part of War of 1812
Date
September 14–16, 1814
Location
Fort Bowyer, Alabama
Result
American victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom United States
Commanders and leaders
William Percy William T. Lawrence
Strength
British:
60 Royal Marines,
1 artillery piece,
2 sixth-rates,
2 brig-sloops
Native Americans:
~60 warriors
Total: ~120 troops[Note 1] 160 infantry,[8]
6-14 artillery pieces (disputed),
Fort Bowyer
Casualties and losses
34 killed,
35 wounded[9]
1 sixth-rate scuttled,
1 brig-sloop severely damaged 4 killed,
5+ wounded[10]
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The First Battle of Fort Bowyer took place in mid-September, 1814. Captain William Percy of the Royal Navy decided to attack the fort in preparation for an assault on Mobile, doing so with 60 redcoats and an artillery piece. He believed Bowyer to be a low, wooden battery mounting some six to 14 small caliber guns.[11]
Background[edit]
Capturing the fort would enable the British to move on Mobile and thereby block Louisiana's trade. From Mobile, the British could move overland to Natchez to cut off New Orleans from the north.[12]
Percy took with him HMS Hermes (22 guns), HMS Sophie (18 guns), HMS Carron (20 guns; Captain Robert Cavendish Spencer), and a fourth vessel, HMS Childers (18 guns; Capt. Umfreville).[13][14][Note 2] American sources often mis-attributed the fourth vessel as HMS Anaconda, of 18 guns.[15][Note 3][17] Lieutenant Colonel Edward Nicolls volunteered to proceed with diversionary forces on land.[Note 4]
On the morning of 12 September, Percy landed Nicolls's motley force of 60 Royal Marines,[Note 5][Note 6],[24][25] about 60 Indians, together with a 5½-inch howitzer,[Note 7] about 9 miles to the eastward.[26] The British land force then marched against the fort and Lawrence's 160 men.[27]
A further sixty Indians, under First Lieutenant James Cassell,[28] had been detached to secure the pass of Bon Secour 27 miles to the east of the fort, but they played no active part in the attack itself.[29]
The American forces in Fort Bowyer, commanded by William T. Lawrence, consisted of 160 infantry, and a disputed number of cannon which ranged between 6 and 14 guns.
Battle[edit]
The battle began with the Americans repulsing the British land attack on 14 September. Nicolls, ill at the time, was observing on Hermes. On 15 September, after contrary winds had died down, Percy crossed the bar with Hermes, Sophie, Carron, and Childers.[30] The fort opened fire at 3:20 p.m.[30] and at 3:30 Hermes opened fire.[31] The U.S. fort and Hermes were at musket-shot range. At 3:40, Sophie opened fire also, but the other two vessels were not able to get into a firing position.[30][32] During the battle, a wooden splinter wounded Nicolls in the eye.[33]
The British naval attack was unsuccessful. After two hours of fruitless bombardment, Hermes ran aground and lay helpless under the fire from the fort. Sophie's boats took off Hermes' crew and Percy set her on fire; she subsequently blew up after the fire reached her magazine.[34] The remaining ships anchored for the night some one and half miles from the fort.[35]
Aftermath[edit]
The next morning they re-crossed the bar and sailed away. Hermes had lost 17 killed in action, 5 mortally wounded and 19 wounded, while Sophie had 6 killed in action, 4 mortally wounded and 12 wounded, and the Carron had one mortally wounded, and 5 wounded. In all, including the marine killed on shore (Charles Butcher), the British lost 34 killed and 35 wounded in the land and naval attacks,[Note 8] while the Americans lost only four men killed and five or more wounded.[37] Percy's court-martial for the loss of Hermes concluded that the circumstances had warranted the attack.[38]
The defeat at Fort Bowyer led the British to decide to attack New Orleans instead. However, after their defeat at the Battle of New Orleans, the British decided to try again to take Mobile.[39]
Second battle[edit]
Second Battle of Fort Bowyer
Part of War of 1812
Date
February 7–12, 1815
Location
Fort Bowyer, Alabama
Result
British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom United States
Commanders and leaders
John Lambert William T. Lawrence (POW)
Strength
1,400 infantry,
11 artillery pieces,
3 (estimated) Rocket frames 375 infantry,[6]
22 artillery pieces,
Fort Bowyer
Casualties and losses
13 killed,
18 wounded[40] 1 killed,[41]
10 wounded,[41]
374 captured.[42]
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The Second Battle of Fort Bowyer was the first step in a British campaign against Mobile, but turned out to be the last land engagement between British and American forces in the War of 1812.[43] However, hostilities between land and naval forces did not end until late March, following the American capture of HMS Cyane, HMS Levant and HMS Penguin from mixed crews of Royal Navy sailors and Redcoats of the Royal Marines.[44][45]
Background[edit]
After the unsuccessful British attack in September 1814, American General Andrew Jackson, recognizing Fort Bowyer's strategic importance, ordered the fort strengthened.[6][Note 9] Now its garrison comprised 370 officers and men of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and Jackson proclaimed "ten thousand men cannot take it".[47]
Still, British General John Lambert decided to attack Mobile again. The British troops came from the 4th, 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers), and 44th, who had fought at New Orleans.[48] The commander of the naval forces was Captain T.R. Rickets of the 74-gun third-rate, HMS Vengeur.[49] Captain Spencer of the Carron was among the sailors landed near Mobile, and was second in command of the naval party.[50] The bomb vessels Aetna and Meteor were present during the siege of Fort Bowyer in February 1815.[51]
When the British captured the fort, they discovered that it mounted three long 32-pounders, eight 24s, six 12s, five 9s, a mortar, and a howitzer.[52] However, Fort Bowyer's weakness was its vulnerability to an attack from the landward side.[53]
Battle[edit]
The British campaign began with an investiture of Fort Bowyer. On 8 February, Lambert landed a force of around 1,000 men seven miles east of the fort.[54]:365 The Royal Engineer Colonel Burgoyne surveyed the fort and decided on the method of attack.[52] That night a 100 yard parallel was dug, at the loss of 10-12 men, which in the morning was occupied by soldiers who kept up such a musket fire on the fort that the enemy could not make any effectual reply.[54]:366
The next night the parallel was extended and the following night four batteries were completed. The troops brought with them four 18-pounder cannons, two 8-inch howitzers,[52] three 5½-inch and two 4.4-inch mortars.[55][56] In addition to these eleven conventional artillery pieces, HMS Tonnant landed Lieutenant John Lawrence's 25-man detachment of Royal Marine Artillery[57][58] with several Congreve rocket launchers, two 6-pounder rockets, and a hundred 12-pounder rockets. While they were constructing their siege works, the British forces endured constant American fire and took light casualties, but continued undeterred. Once their guns were in place, the British were ready to launch a devastating artillery attack on the now vulnerable fort.[53]
On February 12 after a barrage of artillery, Lambert, under a flag of truce, called on the fort to surrender. He demanded that Major Lawrence accept British terms to prevent the needless slaughter of his men. Lawrence acquiesced, surrendering Fort Bowyer after having withheld the siege for five days.[39] An alternative history from British sources explains that on 11 February, before opening fire, Lambert called upon the fort to surrender. After negotiations, it was agreed that the Americans would leave as prisoners of war the following morning. The Governor begging for the delay "as so many of his men had got drunk". This was agreed to, with the gate of the fort moving to British control on 11 February.[54]:366
Aftermath[edit]
Further information: Fort Morgan (Alabama)
With Mobile Bay secured by British warships and Fort Bowyer now under British control, the remaining American forces in the area hurried to Mobile to prepare for the expected onslaught there.
All British plans were cancelled when HMS Brazen arrived on 13 February, carrying news that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed on the previous Christmas Eve.[59][43] When news of ratification of the Treaty arrived, ending the war, the British withdrew.[60]
The final attachment of Mobile to the United States, from the Spanish Empire was the only permanent exchange of territory during the War of 1812.[59]
Fort Bowyer subsequently reverted to U.S. control. The War Department would later replace it with the more heavily fortified Fort Morgan.[43]
Two active battalions of the Regular Army (1-1 Inf and 2-1 Inf) perpetuate the lineage of elements of the old 2nd Infantry that was present at Fort Bowyer in both 1814 and 1815.[61][62]
See also[edit]
List of conflicts in the United States
Notes, citations, and references[edit]
Notes
Jump up ^ Embarked as supernumeraries are: 58 warriors & 21 marines on HMS Carron, with 29 marines and 12 marine artillerymen on HMS Childers. James refers to 60 marines and 120 indians,[7] based on Percy's letter sent prior to departing Pensacola. This is a lower figure than the 130 marines and 600 indians in contemporary American accounts such as that of Major Arsène Latour's Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15. James refers to Latour 'misnaming one vessel'. The complements of Hermes, Sophie, Carron, and Childers were 135, 121, c.135, and 121 respectively.
Jump up ^ The Louisiana State Museum has a map of the battle showing the fourth vessel as Anaconda.[1]
Jump up ^ Lossing contains a map that shows the tracks of the vessels. Lossing's map is probably based on the map in the possession of the Louisiana State Museum.[16]
Jump up ^ Marshall quotes a letter from Percy to Cochrane, dated 9 September 1814, that states, "[Nicolls] volunteered to proceed with a party of about 60 marines and 130 Indians; I shall sail tomorrow or next day, after embarking them."[18]
Jump up ^ The muster from HMS Childers shows that she carried 29 marines and 12 marine artillerymen.[19] In addition the muster from HMS Carron shows that she carried 21 marines as supernumeraries, and around 60 native American allies, under the command of Robert Henry (1791-1850).[20][21] Despite Nicolls having promised 130 Indians, the muster records "Indian Warriors victualled - 58 in number".[22]
Jump up ^ Latour claims that 'the enemy had landed six hundred Indians or Spaniards, and one hundred and thirty marines' but this does not reconcile with the ship musters.[23]
Jump up ^ The 5½-inch howitzer fired a shot of about 24 pounds. A 24-pounder cannon had a 5.82 inch bore and fired a shot with a diameter of 5.547 inches. The howitzer was much lighter than the gun and used a smaller powder charge, but could produce plunging fire, which a gun could not.
Jump up ^ Latour had estimated British casualties to be 162 killed and 70 wounded, whereas the ship musters record 33 killed in action and died of wounds.[36]
Jump up ^ "[Jackson] understood the strategic importance of Mobile and Fort Bowyer".[46]
Citations
Jump up ^ Heidler (2004), p.115.
Jump up ^ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
Jump up ^ Lossing, Benson (1868). The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. p. 1021.
^ Jump up to: a b Chartrand 2012, p. 27.
Jump up ^ England et al. (2000), p.10.
^ Jump up to: a b c Heidler (2004), p.59.
Jump up ^ James (1818), Vol. 2, p.343.
Jump up ^ "Niles' National Register, volume 7". 22 October 1814. p. 93. Letter from Jackson to the US Secretary of War dated 17 September 1814: 'By the morning report of the 16th, there were present in the fort, fit for duty, officers and men 158.'
Jump up ^ Sugden, on p.292 refers to the 69 casualties mentioned individually in the annex to Cochrane's letter to the Admiralty dated 7 December 1814, archive reference ADM 1/505 folios 161-2
Jump up ^ "Niles' National Register, volume 7". 22 October 1814. p. 93. Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated 15 September. 'Our loss is four privates killed and five wounded.'Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated 16 September. 'Capt Walsh and several men were much burned by the accidental explosion of two or three cartridges. They are not included in the list of wounded hereforeto given.'
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, p.66.
Jump up ^ Tucker (2012), p229
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, pp.66–70.
Jump up ^ Remini (2001), pp. 19–20.
Jump up ^ Eaton and Van Crowninshield Smith (1834), pp. 174–176.
Jump up ^ Lossing (1868), pp.1020–1021.
Jump up ^ Malcomson (2006), p.50.
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), p.64.
Jump up ^ ADM 37/4636 HMS Childers' ship muster.
Jump up ^ The Times. 5 November 1850. p. 12. Missing or empty |title= (help) Notice dated 30 Oct 1850: "Capt W H Parke is appointed, to take the place of the late Capt Robert Henry"
Jump up ^ Sugden, John (January 1982). "The Southern Indians in the War of 1812: The Closing Phase". Florida Historical Quarterly. Sugden, on p291, incorrectly spells his surname as Harvey
Jump up ^ ADM 37/5250 HMS Carron ship muster.
Jump up ^ Latour (1816), p.31.
Jump up ^ "Niles' National Register, volume 7". 22 October 1814. p. 93. Letter from Jackson to the US Secretary of War dated 17 September 1814: 'The land force consisted of 110 marines, and 200 Creek Indians, under the command of captain Woodbine, of the marines, and about 20 artillerists, with one four[sic] and a half inch howitzer...They re-embarked the piece, and retreated by land towards Pensacola, whence they came.'
Jump up ^ "Niles' National Register, volume 7". 19 November 1814. p. 166. Journal of a prisoner of the British: 'Sept 15 - The express returns this evening with the news that the marines, 75, and indians, 130, under the command of captain Henry, had landed at the point and had fired four bombs into the fort.. About an hour after night, we heard a great explosion - suppose it to be the fort blown up.'
Jump up ^ James (2002 [1827]), Vol. 6, p.356.
Jump up ^ Heidler (2004), p.296.
Jump up ^ The Navy List, corrected to the end of December 1814. London: John Murray. 1814. p. 107.
Jump up ^ James (1818), Vol. 2, p.343.
^ Jump up to: a b c ADM 52/4355 HMS Sophie ship log.
Jump up ^ ADM 52/4443 HMS Childers ship log.
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, p68, Percy records these events occurring one hour later.
Jump up ^ Medical Journal of HMS Hermes ADM 101/104/3 journal transcript
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, p68, records this occurring at 10pm, whereas the log for Childers records a time of 11pm.
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, p68.
Jump up ^ Latour (1816), p.34.
Jump up ^ James (1818), Vol. 2, p.344.
Jump up ^ Marshall (1829), Supplement Part 3, p.70.
^ Jump up to: a b Tucker (2012), p.249.
Jump up ^ James (1818), Vol.2, p.572.
^ Jump up to: a b Quimby (1997), p. 941.
Jump up ^ Heidler (2004), p.297
^ Jump up to: a b c Chartrand 2012, p. 29.
Jump up ^ Remini, Robert V. (1999). The battle of New Orleans. New York: Penguin Books. p. 193-194: "Then in mid-February dispatches arrived from Europe announcing that the commissioners in Ghent had signed a treaty of peace with their British counterparts and that the War of 1812 had ended." "...the Senate of the United States unanimously (35-0) ratified the Treaty of Ghent on February 16, 1815. Now the war was officially over."
Jump up ^ Reilly 1974, pp. 311–325.
Jump up ^ Heidler (2004), p.358.
Jump up ^ Elting (1995), p.319.
Jump up ^ James (1818), p.570, Appendix, folio 109. Letter from General Lambert to Lord Bathurst dated 14 February 1815 "It was considered a brigade would be sufficient for this object, with a respectable force of artillery. I ordered the second brigade, composed of the 4th, 21st and 44th regiments, for this service."
Jump up ^ Brenton (1823), p. 200.
Jump up ^ Marshall, p.260
Jump up ^ Fraser, p. 294
^ Jump up to: a b c "No. 17004". The London Gazette. 18 April 1815. p. 728.
^ Jump up to: a b Heidler (2004), p.358.
^ Jump up to: a b c Porter, Maj Gen Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers.
Jump up ^ http://www.mywarof1812.com/battles/150211.html accessed 25 Nov 2012
Jump up ^ The London Gazette does refer to 'eight small cohorns' rather than five mortars.
Jump up ^ Heidler, (2004), pp24,56
Jump up ^ ADM 37/5167 HMS Tonnant ship muster 1814 Nov - 1815 Apr
^ Jump up to: a b Tucker (2012), p250
Jump up ^ Fraser, p294, quote:'Lieutenant Lawrence and his RMA detachment remained camped on Dauphine Island [off Mobile Bay] until the treaty had been ratified, after which the squadron and transports returned to Bermuda to prepare for the passage to England'
Jump up ^ "Lineage And Honors Information - 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Lineage". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
Jump up ^ "Lineage And Honors Information - 2d Battalion, 1st Infantry Lineage". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
References
Brenton, Edward Pelham (1823) The naval history of Great Britain from the year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXIII. (London: C. Rice).
Chartrand, René (2012). Forts of the War of 1812. England: Osprey. ISBN 978-1849085762.
Eaton, John Henry, and Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith (1834) Memoirs of Andrew Jackson: late major general and commander in chief of the Southern division of the army of the United States. (Philadelphia)
Elting, John (1995) Amateurs, to arms!: a military history of the War of 1812 (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books)
England, Bob, Jack Friend, Michael Bailey, and Blanton Blankenship (2000) Fort Morgan. (Charleston, CS: Arcadia).
Fraser, Edward, & L. G. Carr-Laughton (1930). The Royal Marine Artillery 1804-1923, Volume 1 [1804-1859]. London: The Royal United Services Institution. OCLC 4986867
Heidler, David Stephen & Jeanne T. Heidler (2004) Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. (Annapolis, Maryland; Naval Institute Press;1997). ISBN 1-59114-362-4
James, William (2002) [1827]. The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 6 (1811–1827), p.356. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-909-3.
James, William (1818) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America. (London, Printed for the Author). ISBN 0-665-35743-5.
Latour, Arsène Lacarrière (1816) Historical memoir of the war in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15. (Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co)
Lossing, Benson John (1868) The pictorial field-book of the war of 1812: or, illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the last war for American independence. (New York: Harper & Bros.)
Malcomson, Robert (2006) Historical dictionary of the War of 1812. (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press).
Marshall, John (1829). Royal naval biography; or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea-officers at the commencement of the year 1823, or who have since been promoted. Part 3. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
Porter, Maj Gen Whitworth (1889). History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers.
Quimby, Robert S. (1997) The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study. (Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan). ISBN 0-87013-441-8
Remini, Robert Vincent (2001) The Battle of New Orleans. (New York: Penguin Books)
Sugden, John (January 1982). "The Southern Indians in the War of 1812: The Closing Phase". Florida Historical Quarterly.
Tucker, Spencer (ed). (2012): 'The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History'. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1851099565
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