Chauncey, younger brother of the Commodore. Order of Battle {| class="wikitable" !British/Native American order of battle !American order of battle |- | valign = "top" style="width:50%"| British Army: Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost Landing Force: Colonel Edward Baynes 1st bn. 1st (Royal Scots) Foot, section (25) 1st bn. 8th (King's) Foot, two companies (200) 100th Foot, grenadier company (56) 104th Foot, four companies (330) Royal Newfoundland Fencibles, detachment (unknown) Glengarry Light Infantry, one company (46) Canadian Voltigeurs, two companies (120) Royal Artillery, two 6-pounder guns (Captain Peter Margetson Wallace) Native Americans (39) British Navy: Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo HMS Earl of Moira Sir Sidney Smith Lady Murray | valign = "top" style="width:50%"| Sackets Harbor: Brigadier General Jacob Brown U.S. Regulars: Lieutenant Colonel Electus Backus (mw) 1st U.S. Light Dragoons dismounted detachment: Lt Colonel Electus Backus 1st U.S. Light Dragoons mounted detachment: Major Nelson Luckett 1st U.S. Artillery detachment: Lieutenant Thomas Ketchum 3rd U.S. Artillery detachment: Major Samuel Nye 9th, 21st and 23rd U.S. Infantry invalid detachment: Major Thomas Aspinwall 9th U.S. Infantry: Lieutenant Colonel John Tuttle (arrived after battle) U.S. Volunteers Albany Volunteers: Colonel John Mills (k), Major John Herkimer New York Militia: Brigadier General Jacob Brown 55th New York Militia: Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Sprague 76th New York Militia: Colonel Gershom Tuttle Other unspecified militia detachments U.S. Navy: Lieutenant Woolcott Chauncy USS USS Pert USS (under construction) USS Duke of Gloucester (recently captured and damaged) Naval Land Batteries and Marines: Lieutenant John Drury |} British attack The next morning, 29 May, Prevost resumed the attack. The British troops landed on Horse Island, south of the town, under fire from two 6-pounder field guns belonging to the militia and a naval 32-pounder firing at long range from Fort Tompkins. They also faced musket fire from the Albany Volunteers defending the island. Although the British lost several men in the boats, they succeeded in landing, and the Volunteers withdrew. Once the landing force was fully assembled, they charged across the flooded causeway linking the island to the shore. Although the British should have been an easy target at this point, the American militia fled, abandoning their guns. Brigadier General Brown eventually rallied about 100 of them. The British swung to their left, hoping to take the town and dockyard from the landward side, but the American regulars with some field guns gave ground only slowly. They fell back behind their blockhouses