Deadliest battle ever on Michigan soil happened on this day in 1813 (Jan 22nd)

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[cripplecreek]

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

[cripplecreek]

Remember the River Raisin



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[Larry Lucido]

Guess that explains all the Kentuckians here in Hazel Park.

[cripplecreek]

Really crappy job with the history on this story.

The American wounded were surrendered because good treatment was expected from the British but the British returned to Canada and the “noble savages” slaughtered the wounded and captured.

[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.

[cripplecreek]

British Major General Henry Proctor’s career was pretty much ended over his leaving the American prisoners to die at the hands of the indians.

He still served but was put on trial and disgraced and I don’t believe he was ever promoted.

[cripplecreek]

Kentucky counties named after officers who fought in the battle. (Only Ballard survived)

Allen County (after Lieutenant Colonel John Allen)
Ballard County (after Major Bland Ballard)
Edmonson County (after Captain John Edmonson)
Graves County (after Major Benjamin Franklin Graves)
Hart County (after Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart)
Hickman County (after Captain Paschal Hickman)
McCracken County (after Captain Virgil McCracken)
Meade County (after Captain James M. Meade)
Simpson County (after Captain John Simpson)

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Last time I checked your page, you had Emanuel Custer labeled wrong. Great pic....btw.

[fella]

Interesting faces some appear to be black and indian.

[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?

[cripplecreek]

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?

The British had guerrilla war fighters even before the revolution with guys like Robert Rogers. Travel light and fast, live off the land, attack and retreat into the woods.

[IronJack]

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

[Springman]

I’ll be staying on history and kitty threads bump.

[cripplecreek]

The war of 1812 is an odd one that was kind of a low grade continuation of the revolution. The bulk of the fighting took place in the northern wilderness with the British attacking New Orleans as kind of a last ditch attempt to gain access to the center of the continent.

Time line

http://www.eighteentwelve.ca/?q=eng/Category/XML_List_Content&start=1813-01-18

[IronJack]

And actually, the Battle of New Orleans took place after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed but before the news had reached the troops.

All those Brits died for nothing.

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek.

[bert]