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[Site]: Battle of Lundy's Lane
[Date(s)]: 1814 (battle)
[Designated]: 1937
[Location]: Niagara Falls43°05′21″N 79°05′44″W / 43.089152°N 79.095456°W / 43.089152; -79.095456 (Battle of Lundy's Lane)
[Description]: The site of a spontaneous confrontation between the British and American forces in which the British attacked American forces returning from the Battle of Chippawa; the six-hour-long battle was one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812 and marked the end of American offensive in Upper Canada
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[Site]: Queenston Heights
[Date(s)]: 1812 (battle)
[Designated]: 1968
[Location]: Niagara-on-the-Lake43°09′37″N 79°03′08″W / 43.160147°N 79.052234°W / 43.160147; -79.052234 (Queenston Heights)
[Description]: A treed promontory on the Niagara Escarpment, where the British repulsed an American invasion in the Battle of Queenston Heights in the War of 1812; site of Brock's Monument and a monument to Laura Secord
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[Site]: Battlefield of Fort George
[Date(s)]: 1813 (battle)
[Designated]: 1921
[Location]: Niagara-on-the-Lake43°15.722′N 79°05.071′W / 43.262033°N 79.084517°W / 43.262033; -79.084517 (Battlefield of Fort George)
[Description]: The site of one of the fiercest battles of the War of 1812, in which the U.S. managed to gain a toehold on the Niagara Peninsula; distinct from nearby Fort George National Historic Site
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[Site]: Frenchman's Creek
[Date(s)]: 1812 (battle)
[Designated]: 1921
[Location]: Fort Erie42°56′32″N 78°55′35″W / 42.94227°N 78.92645°W / 42.94227; -78.92645 (Frenchman's Creek)
[Description]: The battle of Frenchman’s Creek was a minor skirmish in the War of 1812, where British forces pushed an American advance parties back across the Niagara River; the failure of American troops contributed, in part, to the cancellation of the larger invasion planned for the Niagara peninsula at the end of 1812
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[Site]: Navy Island
[Date(s)]: 1761 (shipyard established)
[Designated]: 1921
[Location]: Niagara Falls43°3′23.07″N 79°0′38.1″W / 43.0564083°N 79.010583°W / 43.0564083; -79.010583 (Navy Island)
[Description]: Archaeological remains on an uninhabited island on the Ontario side of the Niagara River; during the 1760s, the island was home to the first British shipyard to serve the Upper Great Lakes and, during the Upper Canada Rebellion, the seat of William Lyon Mackenzie’s exiled government, the Republic of Canada
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[Site]: Fort Drummond
[Date(s)]: 1814 (completed)
[Designated]: 1928
[Location]: Niagara-on-the-Lake43°09′37″N 79°03′08″W / 43.160147°N 79.052234°W / 43.160147; -79.052234 (Fort Drummond)
[Description]: A redoubt and battery constructed during the War of 1812 to protect the main portage road from Chippawa to Queenston, named after Sir Gordon Drummond; some walls of the redoubt are still extant
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