Here on 30 March 1814, Major R.B. Handcock and a British garrison of 500 men of the 13th Regiment Royal Marines, Canadian Fencibles, Voltigeurs and Indians withstood an attack on the fortified mill by 4,000 American soldiers under General James Wilkinson. Daunted by their resistance, Wilkinson fell back to the American border, ending the last American invasion of Lower Canada during the War of 1812.
