Henry Procter
Henry Procter was a British military leader in and around the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.
Procter was born in Wales in 1787. Little is known about his early years. By the age of twenty-five, he was a colonel in the British Army.
Henry Procter played an active role in the War of 1812 rising to the rank of major general. He was involved in many small battles around Lake Erie, including skirmishes at and near Fort Meigs. Procter commanded the British troops at the Battle of the Thames. In this engagement, an American army under General William Henry Harrison defeated Procter's men and a sizable force of Indians led by Tecumseh. The British soldiers fled from the battlefield, leaving Tecumseh and his followers to fight alone against the Americans. Harrison's men defeated the Indians and Tecumseh died in the battle. Procter was court-martialed for his role in the defeat. As punishment, he was suspended from his rank and received no pay for six months.
Procter eventually returned to England, where he died in 1859.
References and Suggested Reading
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- Barr, Daniel P., ed. The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006. - Available from Amazon.com
- Bond, Beverley W., Jr. The Foundations of Ohio. Columbus, OH: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1941.
- Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War that Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. - Available from Amazon.com
- Clark, Jerry E. Clark. The Shawnee. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. - Available from Amazon.com
- Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1984. - Available from Amazon.com
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- Hurt, R. Douglas. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. - Available from Amazon.com
- O'Donnell, James H., III. Ohio's First Peoples. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. - Available from Amazon.com
- Ricky, Donald B., ed. Encyclopedia of Ohio Indians. St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishers, Inc., 1998. - Available from Amazon.com
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