As indicated in my earlier post about lighthouses on Lake Erie, there were other places that I wished to explore. To get there, I continued westward from Port Clinton, Ohio and then northward into Michigan to the city of Monroe and River Raisin National Battlefield Park. The park commemorates the worst defeat for U.S. forces during the War of 1812, coming at the hands of the British and a coalition of Native Americans led by Tecumseh. It includes a visitor center, but no outdoor monuments, although it does have hiking trails. The visitor center includes a museum, which I decided to check out. The first thing that caught my interest was this replica of a British cannon that shot three-pound balls.
A large room was dedicated to Native American culture and includes this wigwam.
Along one wall are these two canoes. The closer one on the left is made of elm bark, while the farther one on the right is a dugout.
This electrically powered replica cannon could be operated to simulate the sound given off by a real one.
The museum also had a reconstruction of a Native American longhouse. It was not of the Iroquois variety, which I learned about when I was a Littlefoot in the state of New York, but of a different people. It was too big to get a good shot from the outside, so I decided to take this picture of the inside.
To learn more about the battlefield park and the River Raisin Battle (a.k.a. Battle of Frenchtown), besides the above link to the park's website, go to River Raisin Battlefield, American Battlefield Trust, Pure Michigan and The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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