William Hull's Detroit Campaign: The Fall of Fort Detroit   Further Reading The Capture of the Cuyahoga Packet The British Capture Fort Mackinac The Fall of Fort Detroit The First Nations at Fort Detroit Tecumseh at Detroit The British at Fort Detroit Brock at Fort Detroit The Americans at Fort Detroit Hull at Fort Detroit The Fort Dearborn Massacre

Eyewitness Accounts of Hull’s Defeated Army What follows are some eyewitness accounts of Hull’s defeated army as they are marched from Detroit to Quebec by British and Canadian troops in the fall of 1812. The first comes from War Hawk and New York Quartermaster General, Peter B. Porter. Porter was at the U.S. camp near Lewiston when he watched the defeated U.S. troops marching north along the opposite shore of the Niagara River. "Three days ago we witnessed a sight which made my heart sick within me, and the emotions it excited throughout the whole of our troops along the line...are not to be described. The heroes of Tippecanoe, with the garrisons of Detroit and Michilimackinac...were marched like cattle from Fort Erie to Fort George, guarded by General Brock's regular troops with all the parade and pomp of British insolence, and we were incapacitated by the armistice and our own weakness from giving them the relief which they seemed anxiously to expect, and could only look on and sicken at the sight..." Peter B. Porter late Sept. 1812