Fort Bowyer

Fort Bowyer

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|strength1='''British:'''
60 [[Royal Marines Battalions (Napoleonic Wars)|Royal Marines]],
1 [[howitzer|artillery piece]],
2 [[sixth-rate]]s,
2 [[brig-sloop]]s
'''Native Americans:'''
~60 [[warrior]]s
'''Total:''' ~120 troops{{efn|Embarked as supernumeraries are: 58 warriors & 21 marines on HMS ''Carron'', with 29 marines and 12 marine artillerymen on HMS ''Childers''. James refers to 60 marines and 120 indians,James (1818), Vol. 2, p.343. based on Percy's letter sent prior to departing Pensacola. This is a lower figure than the 130 marines and 600 indians in contemporary American accounts such as that of Major Arsène Latour's ''Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15''. James refers to Latour 'misnaming one vessel'. The complements of ''Hermes'', ''Sophie'', ''Carron'', and ''Childers'' were 135, 121, c.135, and 121 respectively.}}
|strength1='''British:'''
60 [[Royal Marines Battalions (Napoleonic Wars)|Royal Marines]],
1 [[howitzer|artillery piece]],
2 [[sixth-rate]]s,
2 [[brig-sloop]]s
'''Native Americans:'''
~60 [[warrior]]s
'''Total:''' ~120 troops{{efn|Embarked as supernumeraries are: 58 warriors & 21 marines on HMS ''Carron'', with 29 marines and 12 marine artillerymen on HMS ''Childers''. James refers to 60 marines and 120 indians,James (1818), Vol. 2, p.343. based on Percy's letter sent prior to departing Pensacola. This is a lower figure than the 130 marines and 600 indians in contemporary American accounts such as that of Major Arsène Latour's ''Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15''. James refers to Latour 'misnaming one vessel'. The complements of ''Hermes'', ''Sophie'', ''Carron'', and ''Childers'' were 135, 121, c.135, and 121 respectively.}}
|strength2=160 [[infantry]],{{cite news|title=Niles' National Register, volume 7 |date=22 October 1814 | page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVA8AAAAIAAJ&q=Nicoll |quote=Letter from Jackson to the US Secretary of War dated September 17, 1814: 'By the morning report of the 16th, there were present in the fort, fit for duty, officers and men 158.'}}
6–14 [[artillery|artillery pieces]] (disputed),
|strength2=160 [[infantry]],{{cite news|title=Niles' National Register, volume 7 |date=22 October 1814 | page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVA8AAAAIAAJ&q=Nicoll |quote=Letter from Jackson to the US Secretary of War dated September 17, 1814: 'By the morning report of the 16th, there were present in the fort, fit for duty, officers and men 158.'}}
6–14 [[artillery|artillery pieces]] (disputed),
|casualties1=34 killed,
35 woundedSugden, on p.292 refers to the 69 casualties mentioned individually in the annex to Cochrane's letter to the Admiralty dated 7 December 1814, archive reference ADM 1/505 folios 161-2{{sfnp|Hughes|Brodine|2023|p=888}}
2 captured marines
1 [[sixth-rate]] [[scuttled]],
1 [[brig-sloop]] severely damaged
|casualties1=34 killed,
35 woundedSugden, on p.292 refers to the 69 casualties mentioned individually in the annex to Cochrane's letter to the Admiralty dated 7 December 1814, archive reference ADM 1/505 folios 161-2{{sfnp|Hughes|Brodine|2023|p=888}}
2 captured
1 [[sixth-rate]] [[scuttled]],
1 [[brig-sloop]] severely damaged
|casualties2=4 killed,
5+ wounded{{cite news|title=Niles' National Register, volume 7 |date=22 October 1814 | page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94 |quote=Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated September 15. 'Our loss is four privates killed and five wounded.'Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated September 16. 'Capt Walsh and several men were much burned by the accidental explosion of two or three cartridges. They are not included in the list of wounded hereforeto given.'}}
|casualties2=4 killed,
5+ wounded{{cite news|title=Niles' National Register, volume 7 |date=22 October 1814 | page=93 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94 |quote=Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated September 15. 'Our loss is four privates killed and five wounded.'Letter from Lawrence to Jackson dated September 16. 'Capt Walsh and several men were much burned by the accidental explosion of two or three cartridges. They are not included in the list of wounded hereforeto given.'}}
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