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Article: Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2004
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Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. By Barry Gough. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 215. $32.50.)
To the growing corpus of War of 1812 military and naval studies, this author has added an interesting scholarly analysis of the long-ignored and forgotten conflict on the upper Great Lakes. Revolving around Fort Mackinac, Michigan, the upper-lakes campaign involved a few British regulars and their native allies, plus naval and ground militiamen of French and British lineage.
Many natives and Canadians felt the Treaty of Paris of 1783 unfairly gave the Americans the Michigan-Wisconsin ...