On July 12, 1812, Hull crossed the Detroit River with his whole force and encamped at some unfinished works at Sandwich, preparatory to an attack on Fort Malden near the present Amherstburg.

There were separate schools at Colchester, Amherstburg, Sandwich, Dawn, and Buxton.

The English Colonial Church and School Society organized schools at London, Amherstburg, and Colchester.

In 1844 Levi Coffin found a large school at Isaac Rice's mission at Fort Maiden or Amherstburg.

This morning a conservative force of 250 volunteer militia embarked, at two P.M., in a steamer for Amherstburg (the Malden of the war of 1812), to demand the surrendry of the State arms recently taken from their place of depositthe city jail.