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
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
He had been told of the stratagem by which the great Shawanese warrior had ambushed the 200 American soldiers, near the Raisin River, who had marched from Detroit to escort this convoy and the mails.
From The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Walter R. Nursey
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 Walter R. Nursey
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