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Attack on Gananoqui, September 18, 1812

US Captain Forsyth, on Lake Ontario, makes a bold dash into, having been informed that a large quantity of ammunition and other munitions of war were in a British store-house at Gananoqui, on the shores of the Lake of the Thousand Islands, makes an attempt to capture them. He organized an expedition of one hundred and four men, consisting of seventy riflemen and thirty-four militia, the latter officered by Captain Samuel M'Nitt, Lieutenant Brown, and Ensigns Hawkins and Johnson.