Schematic plan · War of 1812

Battle of Chippawa

5 July 1814
Canada
Victory for USA

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A schematic plan, generated from the statistics of the CAA Database of Battles: the armies' size and width, the hours of fighting, the plan of attack and the outcome are as recorded; the ground and the positions are not.

Great Britain (Br Army, 2,100 men under Riall) attacked USA (US Army, 2,650 men under Brown) in Canada. The CAA Database of Battles records 1 hours of fighting on a front of 1.6 km, a frontal attack against hasty defense, and that USA held. Losses: Great Britain 604 (29%), USA 335 (13%).

This plan is generated from those figures. It shows the shape of the battle the database describes: the size and width of the armies, the plan of attack and the outcome. It does not show where the units actually stood.

The armies

Great Britain

Riall

Unit	Arm	Men
Great Britain left wing	Infantry	434
Great Britain centre	Infantry	579
Great Britain right wing	Infantry	434
Great Britain reserve	Infantry	362
Great Britain cavalry of the left	Cavalry	100
Great Britain cavalry of the right	Cavalry	100
Great Britain artillery (6 guns)	Artillery	90
Riall	Commander	—
In this plan		2,099

USA

Brown

Unit	Arm	Men
USA left wing	Infantry	622
USA centre	Infantry	829
USA right wing	Infantry	622
USA reserve	Infantry	518
USA artillery (4 guns)	Artillery	60
Brown	Commander	—
In this plan		2,651

What the sources report

	Great Britain	USA
Strength, this plan	2,100	2,650
Losses, this plan	604	335

In the CAA Database of Battles

CDB90 no. 147, “Chippewa”, compiled for the US Army to study what decides battles. These are the figures a what-if engine can be calibrated against.

Fighting: 1 hours
Winner: the defender
Terrain: Rolling, Mixed
Weather: Dry, Sunny, Temperate, Summer, Temperate
Defender’s posture: Hasty defense
Front width: 1.6 km (attacker), 1.6 km (defender)

Force	Strength	Losses	Horse	Guns	Plan and outcome
Great Britainattacker	2,100	604	200	6	Frontal attack; Repulse; Withdrew with heavy losses
USAdefender	2,650	335	—	4	Defensive/offensive plan; Frontal attack; Double envelopment; Penetration

Attacker’s advantages none recorded

CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0.

Notes

On this reconstruction

Generated automatically from the statistics in CDB90. Frontages, depths, distances, the order of events and the terrain are schematic: they follow the recorded strengths, front widths, hours of fighting, tactical plan and outcome, not maps or accounts of the battle. The sources give no hours; the timing is conjectural.

Sources

US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold, CAA Database of Battles (CDB90), no. 147 · ODC-BY-1.0Strengths, losses, front widths, hours of fighting, tactics and outcome.
Wikipedia contributors, Battle of Chippawa · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Facts gathered from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons (licence per file); the plan and its text are timeastra’s own.