The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . surrendered the fort,marched out with the honors of war, gave up their arms, and were sentaway under parole to Detroit and other American posts. This is the story of the affair as Lieut. Hanks reported it to : I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint Your Excellency of the sur-render of the garrison of Michilimackinac, under my command, to his Britan-nic Majestys forces under the command of Capt. Charles Roberts, on the 17thultimo, the particulars of which are as follows: On the i6th, I was in-formed by the Indian inter
The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . surrendered the fort,marched out with the honors of war, gave up their arms, and were sentaway under parole to Detroit and other American posts. This is the story of the affair as Lieut. Hanks reported it to : I take the earliest opportunity to acquaint Your Excellency of the sur-render of the garrison of Michilimackinac, under my command, to his Britan-nic Majestys forces under the command of Capt. Charles Roberts, on the 17thultimo, the particulars of which are as follows: On the i6th, I was in-formed by the Indian interpreter that he had discovered from an Indianthat the several nations of Indians then at St. Joseph (a British garrison,distant about forty miles) intended to make an immediate attack on^Michilimackinac. I was inclined, from the coolness I had discovered in some of the prin-cipal chiefs of the Ottawa and Chippewa nations, who had but a few daysbefore professed the greatest friendship for the United States, to placeconfidence in this report. THE STANDARD THE WEST by Rossiter. I immediately called a meeting of the American gentlemen at that timeen the island, in which it was thought proper to dispatch a confidentialperson to St. Joseph to watch the motions of the Indians. Captain Michael Dousman, of the militia, was thought the most suitablefor this service. He embarked about sunset, and met the British forceswithin ten or fifteen miles of the island, by whom he was made prisonerand put on his parole of honor. He was landed on the island at day-break, with positive directions to give me no intelligence whatever. Hewas also instructed to take the inhabitants of the village, indiscriminately,to a place on the west side of the island, where their persons and propertyshould be protected by a British guards but should they go to the fort, theywould be subject to a general massacre by the savages, which would be in-evitable if the garrison fired a gun. This information
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