By: Preston S. , Jack W. and Emily J.

The war of 1812

In 1812 the Congress declared war on Great Britain. Almost immediately Native Americans and British soldiers rushed into Michigan .

After the war of 1812in January 1813, William Harrison led troops through Ohio to get back Detroit.

The war of 1812 After the Americans won they sang this

song for freedom. Oh say, can you see , by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?’’