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The War of 1812
Lieutenant Hanks, with his officers, reached Detroit on the 29th of July. His report to Hull of the results at Mackinac, which he heard for the first time, seemed to disturb him and gave him apparent alarm, as on that day he called for reinforcements.
Colonel Proctor, of the British Army, reached Maiden a day or two before Hanks's arrival at Detroit, coming by way of Lake Brie, but bringing no additional force with him, yet the news from Mackinac strengthened the causa of the enemy, and as a result the Brownstown Indians under Walk-in-the-Water were induced to submit or adhere to the British.
Sometime after the movement of the Ohio troops on Detroit, two companies of volunteers were organized in that State, one at Chillicothe, under Captain Henry Brush, with. 69 officers and men, the other officers being William Beach, Lieutenant, and John Stockton, Ensign.
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