Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812

by Denver Brunsman and Detroit Historical Society

After the American Revolution, the Detroit River marked the boundary between the American frontier outpost of Detroit and the British Canadian communities of Sandwich (present-day Windsor, Ontario) and Fort Amherstburg. For more than a generation, American citizens, British subjects, French settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves and freedmen routinely crossed the border while living and working together in one of the most diverse regions in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615616615
• ISBN13: 9780615616612
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Detroit Historical Society
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.