Key Figures

Important leaders:

U.S.:

-James Madison: 4th President during the War

-Henry Dearborn: Major General in War

-Jacob Brown: Major General & Commanding General of the Army

-Winfield Scott: Army General

-Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States

-William Henry Harrison: 9th President of the United States

-William Hull: American soldier and politician

British:

-Lord Liverpool: British politician and longest-serving Prime minister

-George Prévost: British soldier and colonial administrator

-Isaac Brock: Major General and administrator and was assigned to Canada in 1802

-Roger Hale Sheaffe: American-born General

-Gordan Drummond: Canadian -born officer to command the military and the civil government of Canada

-Robert Ross: Anglo-Irish British Army officer

-Edward Pakenham: Commander of British forces

-Charles de Salaberry: Lieutenant Colonel

-Tecumseh: Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy