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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI42_british-victory-at-frenchtown_Monroe-MI.html
From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3V_sandy-creek-settlement_Monroe-MI.html
Joseph Porlier Benac, Sandy Creek's first settler, was granted a tract of land here by the Potawatomi Indians Aug. 3, 1780. By the time of the War of 1812, sixteen homes lined the banks of the creek.
Retreating Indians swept through the settlem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3T_the-american-surrender_Monroe-MI.html
Protected only by a picket fence, nearly 500 Kentucky militiamen fought off three British charges on their camp along the river and silenced the British cannon with their long rifles in the second Battle of the River Raisin, Jan. 22, 1813.
They…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3L_old-hull-road_Monroe-MI.html
General Hull's army hewed out of the wilderness the first Michigan road when it advanced from the River Raisin to Detroit at the beginning of the War of 1812.In Monroe the original crossing of the river by Hull's Army was at a ford near the presen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8S_first-american-flag_Monroe-MI.html
First American FlagRaised on Michigan soilIn FrenchtownBy Capt., Porter 1796.Site of River Raisin Block house occupied By American troops.Burned by the BritishCapt., Elliott under orderOf Col. Proctor. Aug. 1812.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF2E_george-armstrong-custer_Monroe-MI.html
[Side A]:George Armstrong Custer
Raised in Monroe, George Armstrong Custer graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1861. In 1863 he became a brigadier general and commanded the Michigan Cavalry Brigade. "Come On You …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF18_the-custer-home_Monroe-MI.html
This 116 acre "French ribbon farm", purchased by General George Armstrong Custer, his brother, Nevin, and their wives August 22, 1871, ran northerly from the River Raisin. Nevin Custer farmed it until his death. The present Custer Airport, created…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME8E_roundhead_Monroe-MI.html
In the temporary absence of Tecumseh, the Native-American allies of the British were led by Wyandot Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-in-the-Water. Besides the Wyandots, Native forces included warriors from the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, Delaw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSY_battles-of-the-river-raisin_Monroe-MI.html
[Marker side facing south]
Describing the American victory of January 18, 1813, Capt. John McCalla of the 5th Kentucky, wrote: "I have seen the enemy, and I have seen him defeated. I have seen my fellow soldiers extended lifeless bloody corpses…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDSU_artillery-january-22-1813_Monroe-MI.html
[Marker side facing south]
British Artillery on January 22nd consisted of six small cannons, mostly 3-pounders, with some small howitzers. The artillery pieces were first positioned about 400 yards north of here, just south of Mason Run Creek. …