CHARACTERS

Brigadier General Duncan McArthur

McArthur led Ohio militia up to Detroit as part the Army of the Northwest. McArthur led a foraging expedition into Upper Canadian farmland and five days later, returned with two hundred barrels of flour, four hundred blankets, as well as large quantities of stolen whiskey, salt, cloth, and arms. This had a negative impact among many previously indifferent farmers and tradesmen.

McArthur led skirmishes near Ft. Malden while William Hull remained in Sandwich. Ordered to secure a safe supply line to the Detroit fort, he was upset to find that he, and the men under his command, became a part of Hull's terms of surrender.

Paroled back to Ohio, McArthur continued to recruit soldiers for the war effort and eventually took over command of the Northwest army, when William Henry Harrison resigned. By 1814, however, the western theatre of war was seeing little activity. McArthur testified against General Hull at his court martial in 1813.