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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH WYANDOTTE AND
VICINITY BY DR. E. P. CHRISTIAN
It is almost certain that the British commander at Amherstburg was kept informed of the designs and movements of the American troops at Detroit, for Colonel Miller, with 600 men, was afterwards sent to open communications and bring forward supplies from
Frenchtown, now Monroe. At Monguaga a force of British and Indians intrenched was met by Miller, was attacked and routed in August, 1812. "
Says Lossing jn relation to the fight: "A citizen of Detroit who had joined the expedition, as he dashed ahead, was shot dead near the cabin of Walk-in-the-Water, the hostile Wyandotte chief, near Monguaga. " (This must mean the village, because) "The day was waning and Colonel Snelling and his men were approaching the oak woods near Monguaga, not far from the Detroit river, when they received a terrible volley of musket balls from a line of Indians and British in ambush. " The oak woods just below the village of Monguaga or the present Wyandotte (partly on the Eureka Company's land and partly on Mr. Payne's farm) were still standing and known by that name in the early days of Wyandotte. A part along the bank of the Detroit river, along the front of Mr. Payne's farm, being known as Fox Ridge, has been gone for a good many years. On receiving the volley from Hie enemy, a charge was made by Miller, and the whole line gave way and was pursued by the cavalry for more than two miles, with great slaughter. *
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