There were major American casualties during the unsuccessful attempt to regain control over Fort Mackinac on August 4, 1814. This was led by Col. George Croghan, hero of Fort Stephenson in Ohio.
After the war, Fort Holmes was abandoned and fell into ruin. A public works effort in the 1930s reconstructed the fort, but it again fell into disrepair until state legislation appropriated money in 2014 to rebuild it. By then it had become a weedy mound of earth with scattered wood.
Reconstruction used the original plans housed in the National Archives.
It cost $500,000, part of the war's Bicentennial and is now open to visitors year round.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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