Miller Worsley

Miller Worsley (8 July 1791 – 2 May 1835) was an officer in the Royal Navy, best known for playing a major part in the Engagements on Lake Huron in the Anglo-American War of 1812.

Early in 1814 he was appointed First Lieutenant of the frigate HMS Princess Charlotte on Lake Ontario and participated in the Raid on Fort Oswego.

Before he could sail to Fort Mackinac with urgently needed rations and powder, he was warned that an American force was lying in wait.

His detachment consisted of a Midshipman and twenty-one sailors of the Royal Navy, nine French Canadian voyageurs and twenty-three Ojibwa Natives.

After rowing and paddling 360 miles (580 km), during which passage he and his party ate only some game they shot and some fish from the lake, he spotted two American gunboats near St. Joseph Island.

In the early hours of 4 September, he led a successful boarding attack on the gunboat USS Tigress, which was captured after a sharp fight.