The War of 1812 in Ohio-- Part 1

From the April 6, 2013, Fremont (Ohio) News-Messenger "Hickey talks War of 1812 in Fremont" by Vince Guerrier.

Wayne State history professor Don Hickey said the battle of Fort Stephenson, Siege of Fort Meigs (on present day Maumee or even the battle of Lake Erie had little to do with the final outcome of the War of 1812.  For that matter, the whole western frontier of the war had little impact.

He amended, though, that the battle pf Lake Erie was decisive in the Old Northwest, however, it had little bearing on the outcome of the English-United States war.

The Western front stretched stretched to northwest Ohio out of Kansas City down to Louisiana and Arkansas, covering an estimated one million square miles and had a "profound and lasting effects on American history for all the remainder of the 19th century and beyond."

I take it the Western front did not include the operations between Canada and New York,

I Think It Had An Impact.  --Brock-Perry