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Coverage: Great Britain Coverage: Revolution, 1775-1783 Language: eng Subject: Clark's Expedition to the Illinois, 1778-1779 Subject: Clark's Expedition to the Illinois, 1778-1779 Subject: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Date: 1978 Date: 2017 Collection: Wayne State University eBooks Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
Detroit to Fort Sackville, 1778-1779: the journal of Normand MacLeod
In 1777 Normand MacLeod, a British army officer, assumed the post of town major of Detroit, then a British colony on the frontier of late eighteenth-century America. Although it was not in the forefront of action in the American Revolution, the fort at Detroit had an important role because its strategic location made it a point of interest to military leaders on both sides.
Under the leadership of Captain Normand MacLeod, the city of Detroit played a role in the War for Independence that is …