Friday, 4 September 2009

Fort MacKay, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

An 1823 picture by Peter Rindisbacher of an event in May 1815 when the British saluted and bad farewell to their Indian allies of the Upper Mississippi Valley at the end of the War of 1812. Based on recollections of Captain Andrew Bulger. Image from here
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