Battle of Scajaquada Creek Bridge – Doreen Boyer DeBoth
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“Battle of Scajaquada Creek Bridge “ ©2016
Early in the morning on August 3, 1814, after a fierce Battle of Lundy’s Lane, British Lt. General Drummond ordered Col. John Tucker to take 600 men and cross the Niagara River and Squaw Island (now Unity Island) and capture troops and cut off supplies arriving from Black Rock and Buffalo. If successful, it could lead to establishment of naval dominance on Lake Erie.
In defense, U.S. Maj. Lodowick Morgan, with 240 riflemen 1st and 4th Regiment, removed planking while under fire from the wooden bridge at Scajaquada Creek (then called Conjockety Creek) spanning this creek. With a battery on the south shore, Morgan’s troops bravely repelled three British attempts to repair the bridge and cross the creek, despite a 5- to-1 disadvantage, forcing the British to retreat back to Canada.
Morgan became the Hero of Conjockety. This was a military victory and the last hostile movement of the British toward Buffalo. While the location of the bridge is not definitely known, it may have been in the vicinity west of Dart St.at Letchworth. Original oil on canvas 24” X 48”
