The Mingo, Wyandott, Miami, Delaware, Shawnee, Kickapoo,…

August 1812 CE

The Mingo, Wyandott, Miami, Delaware, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Sauk, Ottawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Mohawk and Chickamauga, encouraged by the British, had joined an alliance in 1783 against the United States of America.

The alliance was originally formed at the Sandusky villages of the Wyandot, but after those villages were destroyed, the council fire was moved to Brownstown, a Wyandot village south of Fort Detroit on Brownstown creek.

Walk-in-the-Water and seven other Wyandot chiefs had petitioned the U.S. on February 5, 1812, and obtained a fifty-year possession of Brownstown (also known as "Sindathon's Village") and Monguagon; he lives at Brownstown and commands the Wyandot warriors.

On August 5, 1812, Major Thomas Van Horne and two hundred U.S. soldiers are en route south to the River Raisin, where they are to pick up cattle and other needed supplies and escort them back to Fort Detroit for the use of Brigadier General William Hull.

Hull is, at the time, in the Canadian village of Sandwich, now known as Windsor, Ontario, although he will abandon his position there and return to Detroit on August 8.

As the U.S. forces ford Brownstown creek, the they are set upon by two dozen Indians led by the Shawnee war chief Tecumseh, Chickamauga war chief Daimee, Wyandot chief Roundhead, and several others.

Faced with such opposition, Van Horne orders a retreat, whereupon the untrained American militia scatters in a panic.

Van Horne is able to save only half of his command; eighteen men are killed, twelve are wounded, and seventy go missing.

Most of those listed as "missing" had dispersed during the battle and will return to Detroit during the ensuing day.

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Brownstown Wayne Michigan United States View →

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Tecumseh View → William Hull View →

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Mohawk people (Amerind tribe) View → Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe) View → Kickapoo people (Amerind tribe) View → Miami (Amerind tribe) View → Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe) View → Odawa, or Ottawa, people (Amerind tribe) View → Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → Potawatomi (Amerind tribe) View → Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe) View → Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma) View → Chickamauga Cherokee View → British North America View → Canada, Lower, (British province) View → Canada, Upper, (British province) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Illinois, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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