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Subject: [IASCOTT] 1910-War of 1812
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 19:17:28 EST

Chapter 5 cont.

WAR OF 1812

Throughout this war a portion of the Fox and Sac tribes at Rock island
remained hostile to the United States.  The first incident of the war which
affected the region in the vicinity of Rock island was Governor Clark's
expedition to Prairie du Chien.  The following account of this expedition is
taken from "Western Annals," by James H. Perkins:

About the first of May Governor Clark fitted out five barges, with fifty
regular troops and 140 volunteers, and left St. Louis on an expedition to
Prairie du Chien.  On the 13th of June, Governor Clark, with several
gentlemen who accompanied him, returned with one of the barges, having left
the officers and troops to erect a fort and maintain the position.  No
Indians molested the party till they reached Rock river, where they had a
skirmish with some hostile Sauks.  The Foxes resided at Dubuque and professed
to be peaceable and promised to fight on the American side.  Twenty days
before the expedition reached Prairie du Chien the British trader Dixon left
that place for Mackinac with eighty Winnebagoes, 120 Follsavoine, and 100
Sioux, probably as recruits for the British army along the lake country.  He
had gained information of the expedition of Governor Clark from his Indian
spies, and had left Captain Deace with a body of Mackinac fencibles with
orders to protect the place.  The Sioux and Renards (Foxes) having refused to
fight the Americans, Deace and his soldiers fled.  The inhabitants, also fled
into the country but returned as soon as they learned they were not to be
injured.  A temporary defense was immediately erected.  Lieutenant Perkins,
with sixty rank and file from Major Z. Taylor's company of the Seventh
regiment, took possession of the house occupied by the Mackinac Fur Company,
in which they found nine or ten trunks of Dixon's property, with his papers
and correspondence.  A writer in the "Gazette" says:

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