one is it sackett's harbor, one on lake champlain. they are being led by the wrong guys. they are being led by the guys from the previous war who do not like or trust each other. who perhaps drink a little bit too much. so they drag these two armies. they are going to bring these two armies, 10,000 guys, together and take montreal. if they do that, the war is going to end. it is a great strategy on paper. they implement it in the most inept way possible. they snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. it's a terrible thing to read about for the guys. the guys who are paying the price for their blunders and their lack of foresight and lack of cooperation with each other. so the army that is coming along the st. lawrence is defeated at chrysler's farm. the army coming up from lake champlain and cutting over meets a small but determined and very well-led canadian group. led by a colonel. they defeat this much larger army. it is an embarrassment as well as the military setback. and then of course, 1813, as i read the history, ends in a terrible way, with the americans deciding

. -- to sackett's harbor.to his great credit, ough, hast mcdon gotten very mature and those couple of years. gotten married. he realizes from his elligence, if i'm going to cross the border, that the british are gearing up to build gunboats. and they are building a large brig to carry somewhere around bigger thant is anything else even close on the lake. he knows he's outclassed. he writes to the secretary of the navy at fort smith. i got to have some warships. and the secretary of the navy agrees. you can't lose control of the lake. you must keep control of the lake. it is decisive to the outcome of the war. i'm going to send you some shipwrights. he sends him the best guys he can send. he commissioned adam and noah brown, the same guys who built perry's fleet to come up to lake champlain and build what he tells you to build. they outlined that it would be a ship, 100 gunboats to counteract their brig. noah brown comes up with carpenters. militiawith farmers and works.vest -- and an iron vermont establishes a