Plattsburg

Plattsburg, capital of Clinton county, New York, on Lake Champlain, at the mouth of the river Saranac, 73 miles by rail S. of Montreal. It has planing-mills, machine-shops, and an iron-furnace, and manufactures wagons and sewing-machines. In Plattsburg Bay, on September 11, 1814, a British flotilla of sixteen vessels was defeated and partly captured by Commander Thomas Macdonough, with fourteen vessels; while a large land force, under Sir George Prevost, was repulsed by General Macomb, with 1500 men. Pop. 5245.