This proposal reversed Armstrong's programme, and he permitted it to sway his decision.

Thus the war turned westward from the St.Lawrence.
The only apparent success in this campaign occurred at York, the capital of Upper Canada, where on the 27th of April one ship under construction was burned and another captured after the small British garrison had been driven inland.

The public buildings were also destroyed by fire, though Dearborn protested that this was done against his orders.

In the next year, however, the enemy retaliated by burning the Capitol at Washington.

The fighting at York was bloody, and the American forces counted a fifth killed or wounded.