Showing posts with label Fort Malden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Malden. Show all posts
Saturday, September 10, 2016

The Boasters Hurried To Leave Detroit

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South Of Detroit And North Of Lake Erie From  Pioneer Collections ...(recollections of Aura P. Stewart of St. Clair County, Michigan)...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

In Search Of The Enemy

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[Partial] Scene Of The Naval Operations - Great Lakes Map and information taken from   A history of the United States Navy, from 177...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Third Great Blunder

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[General] Hull directed Captain Van Horn to cross to Detroit with two hundred men and go to Brush's relief .  This was the third...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Fourth Infantry With Hull

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Source 1812.  During the months of May and June the Fourth Infantry, forming part of the army under General Hull, was on the m...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Francais X. Goulet Served

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From the Kent County, Ontario, Canada's Historical Society's  Papers : The family traditions generally fix the arrival of F...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Early Amherstburg And Fort Malden

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Source "A paper on the history of Fort Malden would hardly be complete without a short account of the place where it was origin...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Early Amherstburg

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Source "...to search the title to Lot No. 11, First Street, or Lot No. 3 on Dalhousie Street, in the Town of Amherstburg .  This...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Journal's August Entries

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Earlier View Of Quebec Excerpts from a   Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812 : [August] 1...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Rendezvous At Georgetown

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William B. Northcutt Journal "Both [William Northcutt and probably Robert Harrison , his teacher] volunteered in the army and ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Fort Malden And Amherstburg

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Source Fort Malden and Amherstburg in 1812 From The Original Painting By Catherine Reynolds
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Mahlon Burwell, His Capture And His Map

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The colonization survey of the Talbot Road was made by Mahlon Burwell , a resident of Dunwich, who lived...near the home of Col. Thos. Tal...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

General Harrison's Army Crosses Lake Erie

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He had plans to cross on September 23, 1813 (see letter excerpted below). Source From Indiana History's images : A letter from G...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Daniel Dobbins, Great Lakes Mariner

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Per Wikipedia :  Daniel Dobbins (1776 - 1856) was "a sailing master in the United States Navy and captain in the United States Revenue...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Major Amos Spafford

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Major Amos Spafford The Spafford Family (Amos Spafford and Olive Barlow ) of Perrysburg , Ohio.   A story about the escavations...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Impetus For War

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Source The great mass of the American people hungered for more territory, and they longed to humiliate England by driving her from th...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Both Sides Of The Detroit River

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Map of Detroit River circa 1812, showing both the Canadian and American sides from the Robert Lucas journal. Source
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Which Country Owned Bois Blanc?

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"After the War of 1812 the question was again raised...". From   The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 : Entering the D...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Battle Of Maguaga

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From The War of 1812 Website : On the afternoon of August 9th the Americans arrived at the Indian [Wyandot] village of Maguaga [now Trento...
Friday, February 3, 2012

From War And Game

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War And Game's post,  Go March To Canada .
Monday, January 30, 2012

Fort Malden

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From Ontario History , Fort Malden, called Fort Amherstburg on this early map. The fort was on the Canadian side of the Detroit River acr...