the allies lost about 200 men. The Duke of Wurtemburg mentioned Fisher's intrepidity to Tsar Alexander. War of 1812 On 12 August 1812, and Meteor captured the American vessels Cuba, Caliban, Cygnet, Edward, Galen, and Halcyon. Meteor was part of a squadron that on 2 June 1814 sailed from the Garonne, carrying 2500 troops under the command of Major General Ross to invade the United States. On 19 February 1814 Samuel Roberts took command of Meteor. He then sailed her from the Garonne to North America as an escort to a detachment of troops under Major-General Ross. Meteor participated in the expedition up the Potomac (August–September 1814). On 17 August , bombs , , and Meteor, the rocket ship , and the dispatch boat Anna-Maria were detached under Captain Gordon of to sail up the Potomac River and bombard Fort Washington, about ten or twelve miles below the capital. The force withdrew between 1 and 5 September, having accomplished their mission and having captured numerous small American vessels. Meteor suffered two seamen severely wounded during the withdrawal operation. On 12 September Erebus, Meteor, Aetna, , , and Devastation sailed up the Patapsco River in preparation for an attack on Baltimore. Meteor participated in the bombardment of Fort Washington, Maryland on the Potomac River in August 1814 and the bombardment on the 13th of Fort McHenry at Baltimore. Thus, "the bombs bursting in air" from The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key were, at least in part, Meteors. The squadron was ordered to withdraw on the 14th. In winter 1814 Meteor also took part in the naval expedition in the prelude that led to the Battle of New Orleans. On 8 December 1814, two US gunboats fired on , and the sixth-rate frigate while they were passing the chain of small islands that runs parallel to the shore between Mobile and Lake Borgne. Between 12 and 15 December 1814, Captain Lockyer of Sophie led a flotilla of some 42 boats, barges, launches - armed with a carronade apiece - and three unarmed gigs to attack the US gunboats. Lockyer drew his flotilla from the fleet that was massing against New Orleans, including the 74-gun Third Rate , Armide, Seahorse, , and Meteor. Lockyer deployed the boats in three divisions, of which he led one. Captain Montresor of the gun-brig Manly commanded the second, and Captain Roberts of Meteor commanded the third.