[cripplecreek]

Then we came back and kicked their butts and sank their Lake Erie fleet

[cripplecreek]

Remember the River Raisin



Michigan legislative action thread

[Larry Lucido]

Guess that explains all the Kentuckians here in Hazel Park.

[2banana]

Winchester was one of those captured and the next morning on Jan. 23, Native American troops surrounded and killed Winchester's soldiers who were injured during the previous day's battle.

And people wonder why the colonists had no love for the Indians...

[cripplecreek]

George Armstrong Custer hosted a reunion of vets from the battle in his hometown of Monroe.

[Fiji Hill]

Another battle fought in Michigan was Bloody Run, which occurred during Pontiac’s Conspiracy of 1763, but despite its name, it wasn’t quite as bloody as River Raisin.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The British employed the natives as a force multiplier/terror tool, but at the same time tended to be “queasy” about the tactics the natives used, and often attempted to restrain their more brutal tendencies. In the Revolution the British had some excellent partisan-hunter/tracker units to deploy against American irregulars — I’ve never studied the War of 1812 heavily, I wonder if they also had good irregular troops in that war, or if they had to rely much more heavily on the Indians for backwoods tactics?

[IronJack]

And don’t forget the trouncing we gave them at New Orleans.

[mosesdapoet]

1812 saw a lot of action ignored in US history . Thanks did not know about this. At first I thought this would be about the Ohio Michigan border war over Toledo.

[bert]

[EternalVigilance]

Can’t remember who it was, but someone sported a tagline for a long time around here that read something like, “Remember the River Raisin!”

[cardinal4]

Thanks for posting this. Man, I’m sick of the Trump wars..

[ConservativeMind]

Nice thread!