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Bicentennial Re-enactment of Battle of Malcolm's Mills

The Battle of Malcolm's Mills was an armed clash during the War of 1812 in which a force of more than 700 Kentucky and Ohio cavalrymen led by American Brigadier General Duncan McArthur outflanked, overran and scattered a force of around 500 encamped local Canadian militiamen, commanded by Lt.-Col. Henry Bostwick of the Oxford Militia. The battle was fought on November 6, 1814, near what is now the village of Oakland, in what was then Oxford County, but is now in Brant County, Ontario. It was part of a series of skirmishes fought by McArthur's forces on an extended raid campaign into Upper Canada, now the province of Ontario, and is known as the last land battle of the War of 1812 fought on Canadian soil. It contributed to McArthur abandoning his objective of pushing through to Lake Ontario and Niagara, and within days his force turned and retreated along the Lake Erie shore to Detroit, while laying a path of destruction.