Wood Splinter From Hull's Road

Pay Department

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Visiting Family While Fort Was Captured

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"Capt. Leonard, the commanding officer of the fort, was [visiting] with his family. He came very early to the garrison in the morning, but was much surprised to be challenged by a British sentinel, who made prisoner of him." 

Bayonets Are Trumps

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Wikipedia account of the December 19, 1813, capture.

Skirmish At McRae's

The Old Northwest Notebook blog contained the following information (and much more):

"The situation of the place where we were encamped at McRea's as aforesaid was on the banks of the River Thames about fifty-five miles above Detroit. The soldiers' quarters was a frame house near the river immediately in front and about 45 feet distant was the house set apart for the guard adjoining the last house and distant from the soldiers quarters about 61 feet...".

Historical Marker - Skirmish At McRae's House 

McRae's House - War Of 1812 Skirmish Location (Google)

McRae's on the banks of the River Thames (in what is now Ontario, Canada):

Curiously, the most important pioneer settlements on the Thames were, not at Chatham, but above and below Simcoe’s townsite. In 1792, Jan Van Dolzen, an elderly loyalist of Dutch descent, settled on the Thames about four miles below Chatham. A son, Isaac Dolsen—as the name was speedily Anglicized—located on the Raleigh side, and another, Matthew, in Dover. About Matthew’s homestead, there grew up, in the course of years, a considerable trading community, with a tavern, store, blacksmith shop, distillery and other small pioneer industries. Another trading center grew up around the Thomas McCrae homestead on the Raleigh side; and both McCrae’s and Dolsen’s were thriving communities when Chatham was merely a name. [Kentiana]

Grooms Served Under Colonel Butler

[Stephen F.] Austin to Samuel M. Williams, Mexico, April 29, 1835. *Butler's machinations to injure him. Butler's unpopularity in Mexico. Does not understand Mexican politics. Nobody does; just waiting.

Joseph Ficklin to Austin, Lexington, June 2, 1836. Commending his brother-in-law, Major [Horatio] Grooms. Served in War of 1812, under Colonel Anthony Butler. Selected by Texas committee for detachment from Lexington. (Omitted.) 363 [Austin Papers] 

Horatio Grooms Mentioned Among Those Who Volunteered For Texas

*Colonel Anthony Butler, United States Minister to Mexico, 1829-1835. For Austin's relations with him, see Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, 286-287.

Destruction Of The Houses

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