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The Battle of Prairie du Chien [3] was a British victory in the far western theater of the War of 1812. During the war, Prairie du Chien was a small frontier settlement with residents loyal to both American and British causes.
The U.S. Army established a presence in Prairie du Chien during the War of 1812, when it built Fort Shelby on St. Feriole Island in the Mississippi River, which was part of the town separated by a marshy bayou. On July 19, 1814, Fort Shelby was captured by British forces and renamed Fort McKay.
In September 1814, the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo, supported by part of Prairie du Chien's British garrison, repulsed a second American force led by Major Zachary Taylor in the Battle of Credit Island. These victories enabled the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo to harass American garrisons further south, which led the Americans to abandon Fort Johnson ...
The estate now known as Villa Louis began when Prairie du Chien trader and investor Hercules Dousman purchased land previously occupied by Fort Crawford. Dousman had the remains of the fort cleared away. In 1843, he built a large, brick Greek Revival house atop an Indian mound, which had been the site of the old fort's southeastern blockhouse ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... (1812) Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814) ... Battle of Prairie du Chien; Q.
Siege of Prairie du Chien The Upper Mississippi River during the War of 1812 . 1: Fort Belle Fontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage , abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison , defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids , July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island , Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson , abandoned 1814; 7 ...
In June 1814, William Clark built Fort Shelby at Prairie du Chien. [1] The British captured the fort in July and renamed it Fort McKay. Two American attempts to send more troops to Prairie du Chien were turned back by Indian attacks at Rock Island Rapids and Credit Island, the final actions of the War of 1812 in the region. [1]
The First Treaty of Prairie du Chien was signed by William Clark and Lewis Cass for the United States and representatives of the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago, and Anishinaabeg (Chippewa and the Council of Three Fires of Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi) on August 19, 1825, proclaimed on February 6, 1826, and codified as 7 Stat. 272.