On the night of August 12, 1814, seventy seamen and marines led by Captain Alexander T. Dobbs, R.N., embarked in this vicinity to try to capture three armed U.S. schooners lying off American-held Fort Erie. One of the six boats used had been carried about 25 miles from Queenston, while the others were brought overland from Frenchman's Creek. Disguised as supply craft, the force boarded and seized the Somers and Ohio, while the Porcupine alone escaped. Two of the attackers, including their second-in-command, Lieutenant Copleston Radcliffe, R.N., were killed. This exploit was the last naval action fought on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.