Battle of Lake Borgne

Battle of Lake Borgne
Part of the War of 1812

British and American Gunboats in Action on Lake Borgne, 14 December 1814, Thomas Lyde Hornbrook
DateDecember 14, 1814
Location
Lake Borgne, Louisiana
30°09′52″N 89°26′14″W / 30.16444°N 89.43722°W / 30.16444; -89.43722
Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom United States
Commanders and leaders
Nicholas Lockyer Thomas Jones
Strength
42 rowboats 5 gunboats
1 sloop
1 schooner
Casualties and losses
94 killed and wounded[1]
1 rowboat sunk [2]		 41 killed and wounded[3]
6 boats' crews captured
5 gunboats captured
1 sloop captured
1 schooner scuttled

The Battle of Lake Borgne was a coastal engagement between the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred on December 14, 1814 on Lake Borgne. The British victory allowed them to disembark their troops unhindered nine days later[4] and to launch an offensive upon New Orleans on land.[5]

  1. ^ Casualty returns within "No. 16991". The London Gazette. 9 March 1815. pp. 446–449.
  2. ^ Clowes (1901), p. 150.
  3. ^ Roosevelt (1900), p. 77.
  4. ^ Remini (1999), pp. 62–64.
  5. ^ Remini (1999), p. 66.