General Hull surrenders Michilimackinac and Detroit...

Item # 672730

September 24, 1812

BOSTON GAZETTE, Sept. 24, 1812 The front page has nearly a full column letter headed: "Surrender Of Mackinack - Extract of a Letter from Lt. Hanks...Late Commandant of Michillimackinac..." with great detail on the notable battle in which the post was surrendered to the British without a shot. Also on the front page: "Success Of The War".
Page 2 has: "Official - Dispatches from Gen. Hull relating to his surrender. This a great and quite lengthy account which begins: Enclosed are the articles of capitulation by which the Fort of Detroit has been surrendered to Major General Brock, commanding his Britannic Majesty's forces in Upper Canada..." with terrific detail, signed in type: Wm. Hull, Brig. Gen. A whole at the top of the first leaf causes loss to about 7 words.
Four pages scattered foxing, the mentioned hole at the top of the first leaf.