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The War of 1812
WAR OF 1812-13.
The fact that Michigan as a Territory and as a State has rendered service in other wars, and that they have only in most cases been mentioned in history in general terms, the compiler has been induced to make the effort to give a brief account thereof in detail, so far as he has been able to do bo, from the very limited data obtainable.
In the war with Great Britain in 1812 and '13 Michigan Territory bore no inconsiderable part, and as it bordered largely on the Canadian frontier could scarcely do otherwise. Detroit being the principal inhabited place in the Territory, and a military post, then in command of Captain John Whistler, 1st U. S. Infantry, the British troops naturally made it an objective point and also Fort Mackinac, likewise garrisoned by U. S. troops commanded by Lieut. Porter Hanks, U. S. Artillery.
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