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Raisin River

American  
  1. a river in SE Michigan, flowing E to Lake Erie: 1813 battle site. 115 miles (185 km) long.


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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

Strongly stockaded at Frenchtown, on the Raisin River, with a seasoned army, they invited attack.

From The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Nursey, Walter R.

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)

J. Austin Scott witnessed a migration in the fall of 1840, when hundreds of gray and black squirrels crossed the Raisin River near Adrian.

From The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 by Wood, Norman

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