Battle of Fort Peter

Date: January 13, 1815 • Location: St. Marys, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1815.

British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, in the only battle of the War of 1812 to take place in the state of Georgia.

The Battle of Fort Point Peter was a successful attack in early 1815 by a British force on a smaller American force on the Georgia side of the St. Marys River near St. Marys, Georgia. The river was then part of the international border between the United States and British-allied Spanish Florida; it now forms part of the boundary between Georgia and Florida. Occupying coastal Camden County allowed the British to blockade American transportation on the Intracoastal Waterway. The attack on Forts St. Tammany and Peter occurred in January 1815, after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which would end the War of 1812, but before the treaty's ratification. The attack occurred at the same time as the attack on Fort St. Philip in Louisiana and was part of the British occupation of St. Marys and Cumberland Island.