Then we came back and kicked their butts and sank their Lake Erie fleet
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
2 posted on
01/23/2016 5:03:49 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: cripplecreek
Guess that explains all the Kentuckians here in Hazel Park.
To: cripplecreek
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...
5 posted on
01/23/2016 5:11:27 PM PST by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: cripplecreek
George Armstrong Custer hosted a reunion of vets from the battle in his hometown of Monroe.
6 posted on
01/23/2016 5:14:31 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: cripplecreek
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.
To: cripplecreek
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?
To: cripplecreek
And don’t forget the trouncing we gave them at New Orleans.
14 posted on
01/23/2016 7:22:30 PM PST by
IronJack
To: cripplecreek
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.
18 posted on
01/23/2016 11:23:37 PM PST by
mosesdapoet
(My best insights get lost in FR's because of meaningless venting no one reads.)
To: cripplecreek
20 posted on
01/24/2016 5:06:23 AM PST by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
To: cripplecreek
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!”
To: cripplecreek
Thanks for posting this. Man, I’m sick of the Trump wars..
29 posted on
01/24/2016 6:52:26 AM PST by
cardinal4
(Certified Islamophobe)
To: cripplecreek
31 posted on
01/24/2016 8:23:08 AM PST by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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