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a prize, and was added to the Provincial Navy as the Detroit. Three 
floating batteries, two of which had been completed, two or three mer- 
chant schooners and a number of batleaux were likewise taken. The 
baggage train which had accompanied the American army from Ohio, 
consisting of more than one hundred waggons and many pack-horses 
with the military chest containing about six thousand dollars in money 
and a hundred packs of valuable furs belonging to the government, 
shared the same fate. The property which came into the possession 
of the prize agents was valued at two hundred thousand dollars. 
After the prisoners had been marched off, Brock addressed his 
troops in his usual curt, inspiring manner, telling them that the events 
of the day would put a feather in their cap as long as they lived. In 
his General Order he praised all ranks for their steadiness and dis- 
cipline, mentioning nearly every officer of rank by name, and assuring 
the militia that their services had been duly appreciated and would 
never be forgotten.2 A proclamation was issued the same afternoon, 
continuing in force all existing laws in the territory of Michigan, and 
assuring the inhabitants of protection in the exercise of their religion. 
The former Chief Justice, Augustus Woodward, was appointed Civil 
Secretary. 
The embarkation of the Ohio Volunteers for Cleveland in the cap- 
tured vessels began next day. On the 18th Brock himself sailed for 
Fort Erie in the schooner Chippewa. 
Those residents of Canada who had joined the invaders in arms 
naturally dreaded the punishment they so richly deserved, and one 
of them is said to have blown out his brains in the streets of Detroit 
when informed of the capitulation. Several escaped from the town 
and made their way to the River Raisin, whither they brought the first 
news of the surrender. Among these were Simon Z. Watson, who was 
rewarded by the United States Government with a commission as 
topographical engineer for the Ninth Military District, and Andrew 
Westbrook, who subsequently became an active partisan in its service. 
A few of those who remained were shortly afterwards indicted for 
treason and sedition, but do not appear to have been prosecuted.* 
On July 18th Governor Meigs at Chillicothe had received Hull’s 
letter of the 11th, requesting him to keep open the line of communica- 
tion with his state militia or his army must perish for want of pro- 

1Nichol to Brock, September 6th, 1812. 
2 September 11th and 12th, 1812. 
8 Allan McDougall, Antoine Lafitte, Antoine Meloche and Isaac Willett, 
Hull attempted to obtain conditions for these men, but Lieut.-Col. Macdon- 
ald declared that “it was totally inadmissible.’—Forbes, Trial. 
