Fort Mackinac
During the War of 1812, the Michigan Territory supplied 534 infantry men and 22 cavalry men for a total of 556 men. Fort Mackinac was in American hands at the beginning of the War of 1812. However, the British captured it June 17, 1812 and kept it throughout the war.
Britain was outraed. because they felt that they did not have the authority or the power to do so
The Embargo Act of 1807 was an attempt by President Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. Congress to prohibit American ships from trading in foreign ports. It was intended to punish Britain and France for interfering with American trade while the two major European powers were at war with each other
<span>an economic boom in the northeast.</span>
