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Before nightfall, however, Hull received letters from Generals Hall 
and Porter at Buffalo, warning him that boats filled with troops had 
been seen some days before crossing Lake Ontario from York to Bur- 
lington, and that some of the British regulars on the Niagara had also 
moved westward by water. Watson again returned from the Thames 
with information that General Brock was embarking troope at Fort 
Erie. Hull then stated his intention of leaving an adequate garrison 
in the redoubt and withdrawing the remainder of his force from Sand- 
wich to Detroit. Colonel McArthur, senior officer of the Ohio Volun- 
teers, was selected for the command of the garrison of this work, which 
was to consist of his own regiment, but that officer stoutly objected, even 
accusing his superior of a design to sacrifice him with the deliberate 
intention of provoking the latter to place him under arrest. Hull 
kept his temper under circumstances of great provocation, and substi- 
tuted Major Denny, detailing as a garrison for the redoubt twenty 
artillery men with two guns, one company of the 4th United States 
Infantry and two hundred Ohio Volunteers, being mostly men considered 
unfit for field service! The passage of the river occupied the greater 
part of the night as there was considerable disorder and insubordination. 
Next day Lieut.-Colonel Miller was placed in command of a picked force 
detailed to re-open the communication and escort the convoy of supplies 
from the River Raisin to Detroit. It consisted of a detachment of 
artillery with a howitzer and six pounder field gun, Sloan’s troop of 
Ohio Dragoons, a detachment of the 1st and all the effective men of 
the 4th United States Infantry, one company from each of the Ohio 
regiments, and one from the Michigan Legion, numbering in all 650 
officers and men.* Advancing to the River Rouge that night, Miller 
crossed it in boats early next morning and resumed his march, the 
cavalry, artillery and supply waggons moving upon the road, while the 
infantry marched in parallel columns on either side protected by 
flank guards of riflemen. His progress was so slow and cireum- 
spect that it was three o’clock in the afternoon before his advance 
reached Maguaga, only fourteen miles from Detroit. The movement 
had been observed by Tecumseh’s scouts early in the day and reported 
to Procter at Amherstburg, who promptly ordered Captain Adam Muir 
of the 41st Regiment to cross the river with a detachment which would 
increase the number of troops at Brownstown to ninety rank and file, 
half of whom were soldiers of the 41st, and the remainder volunteers 
from the Essex militia commanded by Captains Caldwell and Elliott. 

*Hull, Defence, pp. 53-70; James Foster, The Capitulation. 
?Lucas, Journal, p. 401; Walker’s Journal, pp. 59-61. 
