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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CR2_chatham-armoury_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
chatham Armoury
The Chatham Armoury was constructed in 1905 as a result of reform and expansion of the volunteer militia. The first unit to occupy the Armoury was the 24th Kent Regiment that was formed in 1901. It was the centre for local recru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CR1_casualties-of-the-skirmish_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
There were many casualties at the skirmish at the Forks. Although we do not presently know the identities of the warriors who were killed, we do know that two Kentucky men in Colonel Johnson's Mounted Infantry lost their lives at this site on that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CR0_skirmish-at-the-forks_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
Robert McAfee, a member of Colonel Johnson's Kentucky Mounted Regiment, described the skirmish in his journal. He wrote:
Oct 4: ?a woman ? informed us that about six miles above the River forked, that there was a large bridge across the mouth o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CQJ_british-encampment-forks-of-the-thames_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
While British Army was encamped at Dolsen's, Procter travelled to Fairfield to investigate the site as a defensive position. At Tecumseh's urging, and learning that the Americans were closing rapidly, Colonel Warburton, Procter's second-in-command…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CPU_skirmish-at-the-forks_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
On October 2, 1813, Tecumseh moved his warriors up-river to the Forks where he had been led to believe that fortifications would be prepared for a full-scale confrontation with harrison's army. When Tecumseh arrived, he was enraged to find no fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CPQ_the-forks_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
The Forks of the Thames are formed by the joining of the Thames River and McGregor Creek creating a peninsula that is present day Tecumseh Park in Chatham, Ontario. The strategic importance of the site was recognized by Lieutenant Governor John Gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CPI_tecumseh_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
On this site, Tecumseh, a Shawnee Chief, who was an ally of the British during the War of 1812, fought against American forces on October 4, 1813. Tecumseh was born in 1768 and became an important organizer of native resistance to the spread of wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CP9_chatham-blockhouse_Chatham-Kent-ON.html
On this site a blockhouse was constructed in 1794 by order of Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe. He planned to establish here a small naval arsenal which would form a link in the defences of Upper Canada's western frontier and also draw the I…