Visited: Tuesday, August 22, 2017
On our way back from my brother's place to my parent's, we stopped by River Raisin - surely one of the few NPS sites commemorating a US loss. (Oh, wait, we're visiting Pearl Harbor later this year...)
I was always aware of the presence of Native Americans in the War of 1812, and their contributions to the British side, but didn't know of their specific impact. Now, I know - well, something. The alliance was not really a fair one - the British didn't really, from what was presented, have a much better idea of the Native American's ways than the Americans did - but it served the British purposes to foster conflict in the Michigan and Indiana territories.
What most impressed me about the site was the amount of fighting and damage, given the small scale of the battle. Oh, and the cry "Remember the Raisin!", adding Raisin to Maine and Alamo in my list of war cries to recall.
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