Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark

Author:Peter Stark [Stark, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

WARRIOR FROM THE EAST

General Hull had invaded Upper Canada in mid-July. He had staked out a staging ground for his U.S. troops at Sandwich. He had made probes at taking Fort Malden and the village of Amherstburg and appeared on the verge of launching the decisive blow. But then, again, he paused. He had not secured his supply line running two hundred miles through the Black Swamp all the way back to Ohio. He knew it presented a vulnerability. So did Tecumseh, his fellow war chiefs, and his British allies at Fort Malden. As July turned to August 1812, they struck relentlessly.

John Richardson, then a young British soldier, took part in one raid. Richardson’s details of the British march through wild and forested terrain toward an unsuspecting column of U.S. troops remain vivid and haunting more than two centuries later, capturing the essence of the difference between European and Indigenous warfare:

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