Chippawa Battlefield Panel 3

Major General Phineas Riall, the British commander, repaired the bridge over the Chippawa and ordered his Regular light infantry, the local Canadians of the 2nd Lincoln Militia, and a force of Native Warriors to clear out the scattered American skirmishers. The rest of Riall's brigade, the 1st, 8th, and 100th Regiments of Foot, numbering 1,400 men, marched south along the river road toward General Brown and his outpost. Unable to see the British through the strip of trees just south of Chippawa, Brown saw the dust raised by their advance and ordered Scott's brigade into action. As Riall's brigade formed for battle with artillery along the river road, Scott's men crossed Street's Creek under fire from British guns. Dressed in grey work jackets, Scott's troops did not falter, pushed up the river road to Ussher's, turned onto the farm lane leading into the cleared fields both armies called the plain, formed into line facing the British, and advanced about 50 meters. At Chippawa, the U.S. infantry in gray jackets matched the musketry of their red-coated adversaries, and the Gray Jackets of Winfield Scott's brigade live on in the dress uniforms of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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