Fort Mackinac returned to the United States 200 years ago today (July 18 1815)


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(Tuesday, July 18, 1815) — Five months after the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British peacefully turned over Fort Mackinac today to American Colonel Anthony Butler, then left for Drummond Island.