'Storming of Fort Oswego by 2nd Bn Royal Marines and a party of seamen, 15 minutes past twelve at noon', 1814

Coloured aquatint by R Havell after I Hewett, published by R Havell, 1815.

A British naval force attacked Fort Oswego on 6 May 1814 during the War of 1812. An important American supply depot, it was situated on Lake Ontario in New York. A landing force commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Fischer, consisting of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Marines, a company of the Glengarry Light Infantry, a company of the Regiment de Watteville and a detachment of 200 sailors, took the fort while the frigates HMS 'Prince Regent' and HMS 'Princess Charlotte' engaged Oswego's guns. After destroying the defences and capturing supplies and several American schooners, the British withdrew.