Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath.(Book Review)

The Historian | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath. By Barry Gough. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 215. $32.50.)

To the growing corpus of War of 1812 military and naval studies, this author has added an interesting scholarly analysis of the long-ignored and forgotten conflict on the upper Great Lakes. Revolving around Fort Mackinac, Michigan, the upper-lakes campaign involved a few British regulars and their native allies, plus naval and ground militiamen of French and British lineage.

Many natives and ...

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