Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 01/19/2014 3:08:37 PM PST by madison10
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I’d love to check it out but they need to reenact it in June.
My recollection is that it seemed to be a very odd place to have a fight . . . the terrain was very unremarkable. Without looking up the history (and which I do not remember), it struck me that both sides met "in transit."
It was actually two battles. The Americans won the first one and didn’t wait for reinforcements making the disastrous decision to attack again.
Its called the River Raisin because of the wild grape vines that cover this whole area. I can’t imagine what it would have been like trying to get around in this area before roads.
That being said Fort Meigs (where I believe the remaining troops fled—please don’t quiz me on the history), is well worth a visit if one is near Toledo/Maumee, Ohio.
Lived in this county 99% of my life, but IMHO General George Armstrong Custer was a preening jerk.
I don’t know who keeps the Kentucky pinglist but something like 9 KY counties are named for men who died here.
General George Custer’s brother was a Civil war Hero with two medals of Honor awarded to him.
I don’t think that George Custer became a General until after his death.
Fort Meigs is awesome!
It is not easy to imagine battles being fought so near here, but it sure is easy to imagine the hardships. The swamp(s) alone would have been difficult to deal with and then add the cold...
Lake Erie and Commodore Perry did play a pivotal role, too. Saw a great documentary on our local (Toledo, Ohio) PBS station on the battles in Lake Erie.
Thanks for this post. We are fortunate to have people dedicated to keeping alive and re-enacting these historic events. Hopefully some of those kids watching this will have their imaginations stirred and will be inspired to follow through with either amateur or professional careers in history.
There were a lot of prettyboy generals on both sides in the civil war. That’s why some of the most successful spies were females who could walk from one side to the other without question.
Its kinda funny really because so many of the generals had been West Point classmates.
The massacre of the prisoners didn’t exactly end Proctor’s career but it definitely killed its growth.
Canadians weren’t wild about the war in the first place and it angered them a great deal when Proctor left the American prisoners and wounded to be slaughtered by the indians.
I visited the Perry Victory Memorial in Put-In-Bay, also. That was a tough visit. I was there for a bachelor party and I was so hungover I could barely move.
A re-enactment?
Who do they get to play the role of the bloodthirsty savages...I mean...”Native Americans?”
Battle of Fort Wayne. Duh, never occurred to me that Fort Wayne, Indiana WAS a fort. Thanks for posting this.
A person could take a tour in and around the Midwest/Great Lakes of all the battlefields and forts and spend a whole summer on the search. Visiting one of the islands in Lake Erie would be great. (West Sister maybe?)
“Don’t give up the ship!” ~~ Oliver Hazzard Perry
So it was PLEASE don't ask....? ;)
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