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Events from the year1813 in the United States.

• President:James Madison (DR-Virginia)
• Vice President:

vacant (until March 4)

Elbridge Gerry (DR-Massachusetts) (starting March 4)

• Chief Justice:John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky)
• Congress:12th (until March 4),13th (starting March 4)

• February –War of 1812:
  • Construction ofFort Meigs inOhio begins under the command of MajorAmos Stoddard.
  • General Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels atFort Malden by going acrossLake Erie via theBass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough and the expedition returns.
• February 19 – Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition:Manuel María de Salcedo, the governor ofSpanish Texas, lifts his four-months long siege ofPresidio La Bahía inGoliad, Texas and turns towards San Antonio de Bexar, the Republican Army of the North holds the Presidio until July or August.
• March 4 –James Madison issworn in asPresident of the United States for his second term, andElbridge Gerry is sworn in asVice President of the United States.
• March 22 –War of 1812: Col.Richard M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers inKentucky.
• March 29 –Mexican War of Independence –Battle of Rosillo Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats the Spanish Royalist Army in present-dayBexar County, Texas, the Spanish forces retreat back to San Antonio.

• April 1 – The Spanish sign a treaty withSamuel Kemper, one of the leaders of the Republican Army of the North. Governor Manuel María de Salcedo andSimón de Herrera, the Governor ofNuevo León, are surrendered to the republicans. They and 12 other imprisoned Spanish leaders are taken back to the Rosillo Creek battle site and executed. This act is viewed with disdain by the majority of the Anglo-American leaders of the rebellion, and many Anglos leave the rebel army as a result.
• April 6 – Gutierrez de Lara drafts a declaration of independence, establishing the first Republic of Texas.
• April 27 –War of 1812 –Battle of York: United States troops raid and destroy but do not holdYork, capital ofUpper Canada (modern-dayToronto).
• May 1–9 –War of 1812: First Siege ofFort Meigs: British allied forces, underGeneral Henry Proctor and ChiefTecumseh, laysiege to the fort but do not capture it.
• May 5 –War of 1812: "Dudley's Massacre": A detachment under Colonel William Dudley attempting to relieve the siege ofFort Meigs is decimated.
• May 27 –War of 1812: InCanada, American forces captureFort George.
• June 1 –War of 1812:Capture of USSChesapeake inBoston Harbor by BritishRoyal NavyfrigateHMS Shannon (1806).
• June 6 –War of 1812 –Battle of Stoney Creek: ABritish force of 700 underJohn Vincent defeat an American force three times its size underWilliam Winder andJohn Chandler.
• June 20 –Battle of Alazan Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats a Spanish force on the banks of the Alazán Creek, just west ofSan Antonio de Béxar.

• July –War of 1812: Second Siege ofFort Meigs fails to defeat GeneralGreen Clay.
• July 5 –War of 1812: Three weeks ofBritish raids onFort Schlosser,Black Rock andPlattsburgh, New York begin.
• August 18 –Battle of Medina: the Spanish authorities in Texas finally crush the Republican Army of the North at the Battle of Medina, about 20 miles south of San Antonio de Béxar, and the deadliest battle ever fought on Texan soil. This crushing defeat marks the final end of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition, aFilibustering expedition into Spanish Texas which had started the previous year.
• August 30 –Creek War –Fort Mims massacre: A force ofCreeks belonging to theRed Sticks faction kill hundreds of settlers in Fort Mims inAlabama.
• September 10 –War of 1812 –Battle of Lake Erie: An American squadron under CommodoreOliver Hazard Perry defeats aBritish squadron, capturing six ships.

• October 5 –War of 1812 –Battle of the Thames inUpper Canada:William Henry Harrison defeats the British, and native leaderTecumseh is killed in battle.
• October 26 –War of 1812 –Battle of Chateauguay:Charles de Salaberry defeats an American invasion
• November 11 –War of 1812 –Battle of Crysler's Farm: the Americans are defeated by the British.
• November 16 – The British announce a blockade ofLong Island Sound, leaving only theNew England coasts open to shipping.
• December 17 – A trade embargo comes into effect, aimed atNew England merchants who have been supplying theBritish inCanada
• December 18–19 –War of 1812:British soldiers and native allies invade the United States and are successful in theCapture of Fort Niagara and attackLewiston, New York.
• December 30 –War of 1812:British soldiers burnBuffalo, New York.^[1][2]

• ThePhilomathean Society of theUniversity of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States).

• War of 1812 (1812–1815)
• Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition (1812–1813)
• Creek War (1813–1814)

• January 21 –John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer and U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1851 (died1890)
• February 11 –Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American memoirist and abolitionist (died1897)
• February 15 –Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont from 1861 to 1863 (died1909)
• February 16 –Joseph R. Anderson, civil engineer, industrialist and Confederate Army general (died1892)
• February 23 –John Murray Forbes, railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist (died1898)
• March 8 –Christopher Pearse Cranch, writer and artist (died1892)
• March 21 –James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (died1856)
• March 27 –Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (died1888)
• April 9 –Lewis V. Bogy, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1873 to 1877 (died1877)
• April 23 –Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861 and presidential candidate (died1861)
• May 31 –Albert G. Brown, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1854 to 1861 (died1880)
• June 8 –David Dixon Porter, admiral (died1891)
• June 20 –Charles Timothy Brooks, translator, poet,Transcendentalist andUnitarian pastor (died1883)
• June 24 –Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and reformer (died1887)
• July 15 –George Peter Alexander Healy, American portrait painter (died1894)
• July 19 –Samuel M. Kier, industrialist (died1874)
• August 28 –Jones Very, poet, essayist, Transcendentalist and clergyman (died1880)
• August 29 –Henry Bergh, founder of theAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (died1888)
• September 1 –Mark Hopkins, Jr., entrepreneur (died1878)
• September 17 –John Sedgwick, Union Army General (died1864)
• September 27 –Epes Sargent, editor, poet and playwright (died1880)
• October 12 –Lyman Trumbull, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1855 to 1873 (died1896)
• October 16 –Daniel D. Pratt, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1869 to 1875 (died1877)
• December 8 –August Belmont Sr., financier, diplomat, and chairman of Democratic National Committee (died1890)
• December 10 –Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1857 to 1875 and in 1879 (died1879)
• December 19 –Joseph P. Comegys, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1856 to 1857 (died1893)
• December 20 –Samuel J. Kirkwood, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1882 (died1894)
• December 25 –Walker Brooke, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1852 to 1853 (died1869)
• Date unknown –John Miley, Methodist theologian (died1895)

• January 23 –George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (born1739)
• February 3 –Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798 (born1725)
• February 6 –Augustus Magee, U.S. Army Lieutenant and Filibuster, died from a long-standing illness
• February 26 –Robert R. Livingston, lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York and aFounding Father of the United States (born1746)
• April 19 –Benjamin Rush, signer of theDeclaration of Independence, chemist, and physician (born 1746)
• April 27 –Zebulon Pike, General and explorer (born1779)
• April 29 –John Andrews, clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, "America's first scholar" (born 1746)
• August 9 –Abigail Amelia, first born daughter of John and Abigail Adams (born1765)
• August 23 –Alexander Wilson, Scottish Americanornithologist (born1766)
• September 12 –Edmund Randolph,2ndUnited States Secretary of State (born1753)
• October 5 –Tecumseh, Shawnee leader (born1768)
• October 22 –Charles Scott, army lieutenant, 4th Governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812 (born1739)
• November 12 –John Hector St. John, French American writer (born1735)
• November 17 –William Franklin, last colonial Governor of New Jersey from 1763 to 1776, son ofBenjamin Franklin (born1731)

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• The Will of Mrs. Mary Willing Byrd, of Westover, 1813, with a List of the Westover Portraits. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 6, No. 4 (April, 1899), pp. 346–358
• Diary of Elbridge Gerry, Jr., 1813. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 47, (October, 1913 – June, 1914),
• James Morrell. James Morrell's Account of a Trip to Ballston and Saratoga Springs in August 1813. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 39, No. 4 (1915), pp. 425–433
• Everett S. Brown. Letters From Louisiana, 1813–1814. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 4 (March, 1925), pp. 570–579
• Major-General Henry Lee and Lieutenant-General Sir George Beckwith on Peace in 1813. The American Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 2 (January, 1927), pp. 284–292
• D. Fedotoff White. A Russian Sketches Philadelphia, 1811–1813. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 75, No. 1 (January, 1951), pp. 3–24
• Adolf Placzek. Design for Columbia College, 1813. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 11, No. 2 (May 1952), pp. 22–23
• Willard E. Wight, Robert J. Miller. The Journals of the Reverend Robert J. Miller, Lutheran Missionary in Virginia, 1811 and 1813. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 61, No. 2 (April, 1953), pp. 141–166
• Willard E. Wight. Two Lutheran Missionary Journals, 1811, 1813. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January, 1954), pp. 6–14
• Report on Religion and Morals in 1813. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1954), pp. 425–426
• John Hammond Moore. A Hymn of Freedom-South Carolina, 1813. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January, 1965), pp. 50–53
• Parke Rouse, Jr. The British Invasion of Hampton in 1813: The Reminiscences of James Jarvis. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 76, No. 3 (July, 1968), pp. 318–336
• Frank A. Cassell. Baltimore in 1813: A Study of Urban Defense in the War of 1812. Military Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 3 (December, 1969), pp. 349–361
• William Gribbin. A Phylon Document... Advice from a Black Philadelphia Poetess of 1813. Phylon (1960–), Vol. 34, No. 1 (1st Qtr., 1973), pp. 49–50

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