Only about 1,000 troops remained around the town. Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, the Commander in Chief and Governor General of the Canadas determined that his best opportunity lay in taking Plattsburg, a fort on Lake Champlain which had recently been mostly vacated when United States Army troops moved to Sackets Harbor. The British Army in Canada had been reinforced with troops freed up from the recently-concluded Napoleonic Wars with orders to make offensives across the border into the United States. Still, as the ice melted in the spring, neither side wished to enjoin battle unless certain of victory.
After the victory on Lake Erie, the Americans wanted to secure control of Lake Huron as well.
Over the winter of 1813-4, both the British and American sides continued their ship-building contest in the Great Lakes.
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