CSPAN3 Fort Meigs March 13, 2021
the fort itself encloses 10 acres. the purpose of this fort was that detroit had fallen to the british and the entire army of the northwest had been surrendered. everything north of the mommy river -- mommy river -- everything north of the river -- his idea was to build a large fortification at the rapids of the river so that the -- at the rapids of the river. he was going to go back up to detroit and invaded canada. the war of 1812 tends to be quite a bit forgotten in our american history. what was going on at the time was that the united states is a young nation. we had just gotten...