Battle of Fort Erie (1866)

Battle of Fort Erie
Part of Fenian Raids
A Canadian map of the raid.
Date June 2, 1866 Location Fort Erie, Ontario Result Fenian Victory
Belligerents
Fenian Brotherhood	Province of Canada
Commanders and leaders
John O'Neill	John Stoughton Dennis
Strength
400 (estimate)	79 (5,000 later)
Casualties and losses
8–10 wounded	3-4 dead, 16 wounded, 54 captured

During the 1866 Fenian raid of the Province of Canada, the Battle of Fort Erie was a surrounding and forcing of the Fenian armies surrender following a skirmish near Fort Erie and the farther-away Battle of Ridgeway on June 2. The Fenian force, withdrawing from Ridgeway, met a small force of Canadian militia at Fort Erie, then known as the village of Waterloo.