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Contributors Sandy Antal retired as a major from the Canadian forces before turning to teaching, research, and writing. His major work, A Wampum Denied: Procter’s War of 1812 (1997), is the recipient of the American Library Association Choice Award. He also wrote Invasions (2011) and coauthored Duty Nobly Done: The Official History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (2006). Barry Gough is professor emeritus of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. A past president of the Organization for the History of Canada, he is the author of a number of books on naval and military history. His Historical Dictionary of Canada, second edition, was published in 2011. He is also the author of Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath (2002) and Through Water, Ice, & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 (2006). The author wishes to thank the editors of The Michigan Historical Review for their assistance in the preparation of this article. Many historians and librarians provided help, and in particular, I wish to thank Keith Widder, Reginald Horsman, Brian Lee Dunnigan, and the late Robert Allen; Professor J. S. Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the librarians there for access to the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; and William Dudley and Michael J. Crawford of the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard. Donald R. Hickey holds a PhD from the University of Illinois and is a professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska. An awardwinning author and longtime student of the War of 1812, he has written six books and more than fifty articles on the conflict. He is best known for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (Bicentennial edition, 2012) and Don’t Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (2006). To prepare for the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Professor Hickey has done consulting work for the National Park Service, the National Portrait Gallery, the U.S. Post Office, and the USS Constitution Museum. He also serves as series editor for Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812. Patrick J. Jung served as a United States Army officer paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division before earning his doctorate from Marquette University. He worked at the Milwaukee Public Museum on the Wisconsin Indian Resources Project and as the Development Administrator for the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee. Since the fall of 2003, Dr. Jung has been assistant professor of history and anthropology at 174 The Michigan Historical Review the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He is author of The Black Hawk War of 1832 (2007) and The Battle of Wisconsin Heights: Thunder on the Wisconsin (2011) and co-author of The Nicolet Corrigenda: New France Revisited (2009). He would like to thank R. David Edmunds, Gregory Evans Dowd, and Jennifer R. Green for reading an earlier draft of this essay and providing valuable suggestions. Any errors or omissions are the author’s. Steven J. Rauch is an army historian at the U.S. Army Signal Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia. After having received his B.S., M.A., and his officer commission from the ROTC program at Eastern Michigan University, he served as an army ROTC instructor at the University of Michigan as well as an assistant professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Since retiring from the U.S. Army, he assumed his present position and serves as an adjunct instructor of history at Augusta State University. David Curtis Skaggs is professor emeritus of history at Bowling Green State University where he taught from 1965-2001. He is the author and editor of fourteen books including several dealing with the War of 1812, including The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (2001) and biographies of naval heroes Oliver Hazard Perry (2006) and Thomas Macdonough (2002). He and his wife Margo are residents of Burt Lake, Michigan; they spend their winters in New Bern, North Carolina. Patrick M. Tucker is an independent scholar and a research associate with the Western Lake Erie Anthropological Research Program, University of Toledo, and the Firelands Archaeological Research Center...

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