Hello Friends,
Over the past few weeks I've been doing some online research on a War of 1812 battle site in London, Ontario. This is what I found . . .
'On August 30, 1814, a company of Middlesex Militia, led by Captain Daniel Rapelje, ambushed a party of 70 mounted United States Rangers, guided by former Delaware resident, Andrew Westbrook. The Americans were returning to Amherstburg after a raid on Oxford Township (now Ingersoll, Ontario), where they had taken several prisoners, including 4 officers from the Oxford Militia. Such burn, destroy, and abduction raids were the enemy's military strategy for this part of Upper Canada throughout 1814.
Captain Rapelje became aware of the American presence in the area, and in anticipation, constructed a barricade across the ravine-like section of road. The ensuing ambush routed the Rangers, who fled eastward, leaving casualties on the field. All the prisoners escaped except Captain John Carroll of the Oxford Militia, who was killed'
I finally got to hunt this site on Thursday! Unfortunately, I didn't find anything of interest, except for 25lbs. of copper wire and the skull of a fox. After three hours of climbing up and down ravine hills in the woods and not finding anything except the rolls of copper wire I was tired of doing my impression of a 'mountain goat' and decided to hit a local park instead! Though I did get to haul the wire a mile out of the woods back to my truck, that was fun! I didn't find anything at the park either!
Have a great long weekend everyone!
Dave
Over the past few weeks I've been doing some online research on a War of 1812 battle site in London, Ontario. This is what I found . . .
'On August 30, 1814, a company of Middlesex Militia, led by Captain Daniel Rapelje, ambushed a party of 70 mounted United States Rangers, guided by former Delaware resident, Andrew Westbrook. The Americans were returning to Amherstburg after a raid on Oxford Township (now Ingersoll, Ontario), where they had taken several prisoners, including 4 officers from the Oxford Militia. Such burn, destroy, and abduction raids were the enemy's military strategy for this part of Upper Canada throughout 1814.
Captain Rapelje became aware of the American presence in the area, and in anticipation, constructed a barricade across the ravine-like section of road. The ensuing ambush routed the Rangers, who fled eastward, leaving casualties on the field. All the prisoners escaped except Captain John Carroll of the Oxford Militia, who was killed'
I finally got to hunt this site on Thursday! Unfortunately, I didn't find anything of interest, except for 25lbs. of copper wire and the skull of a fox. After three hours of climbing up and down ravine hills in the woods and not finding anything except the rolls of copper wire I was tired of doing my impression of a 'mountain goat' and decided to hit a local park instead! Though I did get to haul the wire a mile out of the woods back to my truck, that was fun! I didn't find anything at the park either!
Have a great long weekend everyone!
Dave
Attachments
Upvote
0