Fort St. Joseph

From Fort St. Joseph (Fort Saint Joseph), now the Fort St. Joseph National Historic Site, the first attack was carried out during the War of 1812.
The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812 but the British garrison at Fort St. Joseph received the news before the American garrison at Fort Mackinac. The British garrison commander, Captain Charles Roberts, decided to take advantage of that situation and on 17 July 1812 the British captured the American Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. The British garrison and traders abandoned Fort St. Joseph and moved into the American fort. Later, in 1814, an American expedition burned the abandoned Fort St. Joseph to the ground.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: D. Gordon E. Robertson