A Frontier in Flames, War Along the U.S.-Canadian Border-- Part 1: An Outgrowth of the American Revolution

From the September/October American Spirit magazine, Daughters of the American Revolution "A Frontier in Flames" by Bill Hudgins.

One of the major issues of the War of 1812 for the United States  was Great Britain's continued presence and interference along the United States'northwestern border and the Canadian province  of Upper Canada, which stretched  along the great Lakes.

At the end of the American Revolution, there were seven major British outposts in the United States new Northwest Territory. (present-day Indiana, Illinois,Michigan and Wisconsin).  They were involved in the lucrative fur trade and had contact with American Indians.

The 1783 Treaty of Paris required the British to give up these outposts, but it took them a decade to do it.  Even worse, they encouraged the Indians to resist westward expansion of the Americans.

--Brock-Perry