Robert Livingston Fort Mackinac Canadian

Robert Livingston was a tough and active courier for the Indian Department. He had traveled a total of nine thousand miles on official business by himself; had been taken prisoner by the Americans twice and had escaped both times; was blinded in his right eye by a tomahawk; bore spear wounds on his shoulders and forehead; as well as carried a musket ball in his thigh. During an American siege of Fort Mackinac in the late summer of 1814, it was Livingston who British Lieutenant Colonel Robert McDouall dispatched alone to travel more than three hundred miles over water to warn Lieutenant Miller Worsely that the Americans had targeted his supply ship. Livingston made the arduous return journey with Worsely to deliver the supplies in three small boats, thus thwarting the American siege.