Holding the High Ground
Early on the morning of July 26th, 1814, Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond awaited another attack on the Lundy's Lane hill near Niagara Falls. Throughout the previous night, this hill had been taken and retaken in the bloodiest, most hard fought battle of the War of 1812-14.
The expected attack did not occur. The Americans, exhausted, withdrew to Fort Erie. In November, they abandoned Fort Erie and retired across the Niagara River.
Drummond and his troop's had successfully maintained British sovereignty in the Niagara Peninsula.
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Lundy's Lane and Hanan Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
