The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull

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Notes Preface 1. The quotes are from, respectively, James R. Jacobs and Glen Tucker, The War of 1812: A Compact History (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1969), 31; Garry Wills, James Madison (New York: Henry Holt, 2002), 102; Pierre Berton, The Invasion of Canada (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980), 1:178; A. J. Langguth, Union 1812 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 193. Introduction 1. James G. Forbes, Report of the Trial of General William Hull: Commanding the Northwestern Army of the United States (New York: Eastburn, Kirk, 1814), 119. 2. A. L. Burt, “Issues and the Evolution of Causes of the War of 1812,” in The War of 1812: Past Justifications and Present Interpretations, ed. George Rogers Taylor (Boston: Heath, 1963), 88. 3. Robert S. Quimby, The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997), 4. Chapter 1 1. Brian Leigh Dunnigan, “Fortress Detroit, 1701–1826,” in The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754–1814, ed. David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001), 169–71. 2. Ibid., 173. 3. Philip Mason, Detroit, Fort Lernoult, and the American Revolution (Detroit: Notes to Chapter 1 202 Wayne State University Press, 1964), 9. 4. Ibid., 23. 5. Willis Frederick Dunbar, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman, 1965), 178; and F. Clever Bald, Michigan in Four Centuries (New York: Harper & Row, 1954), 106. 6. David Lee Poremba, Detroit in Its World Setting (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001), 93, 99. 7. William L. Jenks, “Life of William Hull,” Michigan Historical Collections 40 (1929): 25–51. 8. Alec R. Gilpin, The Territory of Michigan: 1805–1837 (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1970), 9–10. 9. James Freeman Clarke, History of the Campaign of 1812 and Surrender of the Post of Detroit (New York: D. Appleton, 1847), 321. 10. George B. Catlin, The Story of Detroit (Detroit: Detroit News, 1920), 115– 19; Dunbar, Michigan, 105; Bald, Michigan in Four Centuries, 107–8. 11. Dunbar, Michigan, 193–94. 12. Frank B. Woodford, Mr. Jefferson’s Disciple: A Life of Justice Woodward (East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1953), 45. 13. Ibid., 198–99; Bald, Michigan in Four Centuries, 113. 14. Maria Campbell, Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull: Prepared from His Manuscripts (New York: D. Appleton, 1848), 311. 15. Ibid., 320. 16. Reginald Horsman, The Causes of the War of 1812 (New York: Octagon Books, 1975), 154. 17. Jenks, “William Hull,” 38–39. 18. Dunbar, Michigan, 201. 19. Skaggs and Nelson, The Sixty Years’ War, 180. 20. Almon E. Parkins, The Historical Geography of Detroit (New York: Kannikat, 1918), 132. 21. William Hull, Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, 1812 (Boston: True & Greene, 1824), 19. 22. Ibid., 19–20. 23. Gilpin, The Territory of Michigan, 21. 24. R. David Edmunds, “Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and American History : A Reassessment,” Western Historical Quarterly 14 (July 1983): 265– 66; Alfred A. Cave, “The Shawnee Prophet, Tecumseh, and Tippecanoe: A Case Study of Historical Myth Making,” Journal of the Early Republic 22 (Winter 2002): 641–43. 25. Edmunds, “Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and American History,” 271. 26. Cave, “The Shawnee Prophet,” 644. 27. Ibid., 273–74. 28. Alec R. Gilpin, The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest (East Lansing: Michi- Notes to Chapter 2 203 gan State University Press, 1958), 13. 29. John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 232. 30. Ibid., 235–36. 31. Cave, “The Shawnee Prophet,” 657–65. 32. Robert Leckie, From Sea to Shining Sea (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 160–65. 33. Gilpin, The Territory of Michigan, 21 34. Forbes, Report of the Trial, appendix, 3 35. Sugden, Tecumseh, 258. 36. “Brig-General Hull to the Secretary of War, March 6, 1812,” in Documents related to the Invasion of Canada and the Surrender of Detroit, ed. E. A. Cruikshank (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1962), 19–21. 37. Ibid., 22. 38. “John Armstrong to Secretary of War, January 2, 1812,” in Cruikshank, Documents, 3. 39. Gilpin, The War of 1812, 28. 40. Forbes, Report of the Trial, appendix, 7. Chapter 2 1. Horsman, The Causes of the War of 1812, 21. 2. Ibid., 30–31. 3. Ibid., 38–39. 4. Ibid., 69. 5. Burt, “Issues and the Evolution of Causes of the War of 1812,” 70–71. 6. Kate...