The Battle of Troupville, now called Sodus Point, took place on the crest of a hill at what is now the intersection of John and Bay Streets on the evening of June 19th, 1813, during the War of 1812. About 50 patriots, a combination of poorly trained militia and local volunteers with no military training, fired into the lines of advancing British marines as they ascended the hill from the western shoreline. Greatly outnumbered and facing highly trained British soldiers, the Americans defended the village against the incursion. Unaware of each other’s strength and numbers, both British and American forces retreated, the British to their ships and the Americans to the heavy underbrush. The next day, after a barrage from the cannons on their ships, the British landed again, seized some stores in the warehouses, and burned most of the buildings in the village, though most provisions had been hidden in a nearby ravine the previous night. Only one building, a tavern known as the Mansion House, survived because commanding British naval officers used it to place the fatally wounded American Asher Warner, who died later that day. Another American wounded in the battle, Charles Terry, died from complications of his wounds a few weeks later.