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Raisin River

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  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

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

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.

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