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In consequence of this national thirst for revenge, Generals Harrison and Winchester started to look for trouble in January, 1813, and were rewarded. Strongly stockaded at Frenchtown, on the Raisin River, with a seasoned army, they invited attack.
Then Procter, inflated by his victory at Frenchtown, and overrating his military skill, attacked Fort Meigs, on the Maumee River, was badly repulsed, and hopelessly lost all prestige. This defeat of the British was followed by Dearborn's assault upon Fort George.
Olaf Oleson will bring his accordion and Mollie will play the organ, when she isn't lookin' after the grub, and a little chap from Frenchtown will bring his fiddle though the French don't mix with the Norwegians much." "Delightful! Mr. Lockhart, that dance will be the feature of our trip, and it's so nice of you to get it up for us.
Lafayette embarked at Frenchtown in the steamboat United States, for Baltimore, furnished for his accommodation by that city.
The commonplace Winchester was no leader to hold them in hand and spur their jaded determination. While they were building storehouses and log defenses, within dangerously easy distance of the British post at Amherstburg, the tempting message came that the settlement of Frenchtown, on the Raisin, thirty miles away and within the British lines, was held by only two companies of Canadian militia.
General Harrison, in command of the north western army of the United States, was stationed at Franklintown. Anxious, at any cost, to afford the discontented and sickly troops under him, active employment, he detached General Winchester with his seven or eight hundred, or, as it is even said, a thousand men, to take possession of Frenchtown.
By a flying trip on snowshoes in January he took letters, from General Hampton at Ticonderoga to Sackett's Harbour and back in eight days, nearly three hundred miles. It made him famous as a runner, but the tidings that he brought were sad. Through him they learned in detail of the total defeat and capture of the American army at Frenchtown.
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