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DIV 091-18 NEWSLETTER Sector Detroit Date: 24 NOV 12 DIV 091-18 NEWSLETTER Volume 1 Issue 1 Publisher: Dan De Lise SO- PB Division 18 -9CR Sector Detroit - Belle Isle [email protected] Ph: 248-462-2407 A history of Detroit in 1812 Figure 1: The Surrender of Detroit by John Wycliffe Lowes Second War of American Independence. Forster Coordinates: 42.33015°N 83.04874°W On June 18, 1812, James Madison signed Congress's official declaration of war against England. Great Britain and France had been at war, off and on, since 1793. The United States, which traded with both countries, was caught in the middle. Britain blocked all French seaports and insisted that U.S. ships first stop at a British port and pay a fee before continuing to France. Britain was also interfering in the affairs of Canada, America's neighbor. The War of 1812 came to be known as the second American war of independence. How long did the war last and where was it fought? The war was fought on land and on the sea and lasted almost three years. One of the biggest offensives was the British attack on the capital city of Washington; D.C. British soldiers landed on the East Coast on August 19, 1814, and stormed Washington on August 24. The 63-year-old Madison barely escaped capture as British soldiers burned Washington -- including the White House and the Capitol building (which housed the 3,000-volume Library of Congress at the time) -- before quickly moving on to Baltimore, Maryland. The United States and Britain each won several important battles. They eventually grew weary of warfare and signed a peace treaty in Belgium on December 24, 1814. The treaty recognized previous existing boundaries between American and British territory in North America Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 of 16 29-Nov-12 Figure 2: Fort Lernoult Marker (Fort Detroit) State of Michigan Registry of Historic Sites Photograph: Ren Farley Bounded by Michigan on the north, Griswold on the east, West Congress on the south and Cass on the west, with its center at the corner of West Fort and Shelby in downtown Detroit Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 2 of 16 29-Nov-12 Figure 3: Map of the Plan for the Town of Detroit and the Fort Lernoult, Circa 1848 After British troops defeated French forces near Quebec City and Montreal in 1760, the French were losing their fight to control North American colonies. British Major, Robert Rogers, led a force from the British fort at Pittsburgh toward Detroit in the fall of 1760, anticipating an attack upon the French fort. In his journey, he learned from Ottawa Indians of the defeat of French forces in Quebec, so when the British arrived in Detroit on November 19, 1760, Francois Marie Picote de Belestre surrendered Fort Ponchatrain. The French in Detroit tried to maintain friendly relations with the Indians and to covert them to European mores and Catholicism. The British were primarily interested in commercial trade with the Indians in hopes of securing valuable furs. Apparently, the British quickly antagonized the Indians. Detroit, at this time, was a primarily French village, although there were Scottish and English traders. Fearing that the French might join the Indians in an uprising against their rule, the Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 3 of 16 29-Nov-12 British sought to take away the guns of the French, an unpopular move since Detroit residents relied upon game for their food. The British renamed the fort: Fort Detroit. Ottawa Chief Pontiac organized most Indian tribes in the upper Midwest into a coordinated attack upon the British with plans to expel them so that Indians could claim their ancestral lands. Figure 4: 1763 Siege of Fort Detroit Coordinated attacks were planned for the spring of 1763 against British forts at Detroit, Green Bay, Mackinac, Sandusky and St. Joseph. Pontiac himself intended to lead the attack on Fort Detroit beginning May 8, 1763. British intelligence learned of the Indians’ planning and devised an effective defense. Nevertheless, Pontiac led a siege of Fort Detroit that last from early May to the end of October, 1763. During the summer, the Indians effectively cut off the resupply of Fort Detroit and attacked British forces that sought to bring aid to the fort through Canada. By October, Pontiac learned that the Treaty of Paris officially ended French colonization in North America. He correctly assumed that he could no longer count on any French support in his fight to remove the English. Thus, he withdrew his troops from Detroit to the banks of the Maumee. Interestingly, the Indians were successful in overrunning the British forts at the other four locations. Detroit was the only fort the British could defend. Early in the American Revolution, American forces sought to attack the British in Canada. Revolutionary troops invaded Lower Canada, fought with the British near Quebec City and briefly occupied Montreal. Most of the fighting in the War for Independence took place along the East Coast or on the Atlantic, but Revolutionary troops occupied the fort at Pittsburgh. Fearing an attack Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 4 of 16 29-Nov-12 upon Detroit, the British commander, Captain Richard Lernoult, ordered that a new fort be built in 1778-1779. This is the structure commemorated by the historical marker shown above. The American Revolutionary, George Rogers Clark, attempted to raise a force that would attack the British in Detroit but was not successful in his efforts so Fort Lernoult played no role in the Revolutionary War. The peace treaty ending the US war of Independence in1783 called for the British to cede control of Michigan, but they were in no hurry to leave. Instead, the British supplied Indians who sought to kill Americans who increasingly settled in Ohio and Indiana and Independence. This bloodshed increased and President Washington reluctantly came to realize that there was another stage of the Revolutionary War that must be fought. In 1792, he appointed General Anthony Wayne to fight the Indians and their British allies in what came to be known as the Northwest Indian War. The Battle of Fallen Timbers, near Toledo in August, 1794, was a key turning point since the Indians were defeated by US troops. Realizing that their Indian allies had been overwhelmed, the British peacefully surrendered Fort Lernoult to American troops, led by Colonel Jean Francois Hamtramck, on July 11, 1796. The United States has occupied Detroit since that date with the exception of a brief period in 1813-1813 when the fort was surrendered to the British without a fight. After retaking the Fort in 1813, the American renamed it Fort Shelby in honor of the governor of Kentucky who successfully recruited troops to fight in the Midwest for the United States in the War of 1812. American troops continued to use Fort Shelby until 1826. It was then torn down. In 1962, excavation started for the foundation of the Detroit Bank and Trust Building on the site of former Fort Lernoult. Those doing the digging recognized artifacts from the military base. Archeologists from Wayne State, I believe, supervised a careful retrieval of items from the fort, such as posts, ceramic chips, glass and pieces of metal. Apparently an archeological archive at Wayne State now contains 8,000 items from the Fort Lernoult that served the British and the Americans from 1878 to 1826.Source: State of Michigan Registry of Historic Sites: State of Michigan Historical Marker National Register of Historic Places: Brigadier General William Hull U.S. Army (1753-1825A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Hull proved indecisive and incompetent during the War of 1812. After a half-hearted invasion of Canada he surrendered Detroit and his army to a weaker British force commanded by the aggressive British General Isaac Brock. Hull's son, Captain Abraham Hull, fought at Chippewa and was later killed at the Battle of Lundy's Lane in 1814. Read More go to the link below: http://www.ourflagwasstillthere.org/commemoration-news-2/763-general-hulls-martyrdom.html Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 5 of 16 29-Nov-12 200 Years later… Auxiliary Divisions 18 & 20 coordinates and supports the mission of the USCG and US Navy. A story in photos! Photos by John La Rock 091-18-05 (Now Div 20) & Mike Czapiewski 091-18-01 Figure 5: USCG Fast 45 ft from Station Belle Island Patrol passing the stern of the Bristol Bay docked at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Photo by Auxiliarists John La Rock 091-18-05 Figure 6:- Auxiliarists Dan Getts, Connie Mays, Denis & Mary Nicole, and Dave Chrisco of 091-18-05 on patrol in the Detroit River for the War of 1812 Event. Photo by Auxiliarists John La Rock 091-18-05 Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 6 of 16 29-Nov-12 Figure 7: 120906-G-ZZ999-014 a team of Navy sailors and Coast Guardsmen, led by Lt. Cdr. Juan Torres, left, from the Historic Ship's Company, prepare for a flag-folding ceremony on the Detroit riverfront Sept. 6, 2012. The ceremony was part of the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, which has been touring the ports of the Great Lakes. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Auxiliarists Mike Czapiewski. Figure 8: Brig Niagara passing the bow of the USCGC Katmai Bay (WTGB-101) Photo by Auxiliarists Mike Czapiewski 091-18-01 Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 7 of 16 29-Nov-12 Figure 9: The Brig Niagara under full sail, off of South Bass Island, Ohio on Lake Erie.
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