During March 1814, the commander of American forces at Detroit, Colonel Butler, ordered Captain Andrew Holmes of the 24th Tennessee Regiment on a raid into the British Western District in Upper Canada. His objective was to capture a British military post.
He won a skirmish/battle near Longwood, a heavily forested tract of land that lay between Delaware and the present town of Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
Exactly five months later the American forces tried to attack the heavily fortified Fort Mackinac in August 1914. Major Holmes was killed while leading a force of troops in the attack.
The British ambushed them in a bloody skirmish which left 13 Americans dead including Holmes.
On the 30th of the same month, Andrew Jackson wrote Governor David Holmes a note of condolence saying: "I sympathize with you most cordially in the afflicting loss of your brother, Major Holmes."
(David Holmes was the governor of the Mississippi Territory.)
--Brock-Perry
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