Raisin River
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Author and retired Canadian Forces Major Sandy Antal will speak on “Unspoken Sub-plots to the Raisin River Affair of 1813” on Saturday.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2018
How did newspaper publishers remember the Raisin River massacre?
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016
The second phase began likewise with a disaster—the needless loss of a thousand men on the Raisin River, near Detroit.
From The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond by Ogg, Frederic Austin
In 1813 the campaign commenced with a signal victory by General Procter, who was in command at Detroit, over a considerable American force at Frenchtown, on the Raisin River, under the command of Brigadier Winchester.
From Canada by Bourinot, John George, Sir
January of 1813 saw a detachment of Procter's men up Raisin River, west of Detroit, where they defeated General Winchester and captured nearly five hundred prisoners, to be set free on parole.
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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