Ann Durkin Keating

And when that happens, the U.S.

is already at war with Tecumseh.

So that when we get to the summer of 1812, Fort Dearborn is at a flashpoint in both the war with Great Britain and the war with Tecumseh and his allies.

And so Great Britain has taken Mackinac.

Three weeks after the U.S.

declares war, the British just walk into the fort from the back at Rackinack, and the U.S.

troops at Fort Dearborn are ordered to evacuate in August of 1812, and they're attacked while they're leaving the fort.

That's for sure.

And he's got quite a bit of support.

They're hoping that they're going to get more support in terms of guns and ammunition and other supplies from Great Britain.

And so they align with Great Britain in the war.

And again, at Fort Dearborn, the attack is made by Tecumseh allies.

Tecumseh is not there.

Tecumseh is at Detroit alongside the British or near Detroit alongside the British, but

The U.S., there's about 90 troops at Chicago that are evacuating soldiers and some of their families who are also here, which is a very dangerous thing to have been.

When you look at this, this is a flashpoint in the West at Fort Dearborn, but they're attacked.

I think dozens of soldiers are killed immediately, many more, dozens more are taken captive.

And, you know, it takes months and months and months to find out who was killed initially, who was killed after, and who survives.

Because people, it just took that long.

The captain of the Americans, Nathan Heald, is ransomed by, again, Potawatomi, who are more sympathetic to the U.S., who know.