America 250: Residents of “Wisconsin” in the Revolutionary War with Mary Elise Antoine

May 12 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join Mary Antoine for this special America 250 event on the Wisconsin residents who fought in the Revolutionary War.

The Wisconsin History Makers Tour will bring history directly to local communities in every region of the state. In collaboration with community partners, the tour offers an exciting opportunity for our historians, curators and authors to visit your community and share the stories of our great state.

Michel Charles de Langlade and his family had been living at la Baye for less than ten years when British soldiers and colonists exchanged musket fire on Lexington green. Within a year, Michel and the Native nations of the western Great Lakes-upper Mississippi region, with whom he and other Canadians traded, were drawn into the conflict to determine whether Great Britain’s North American colonies would gain independence from the rule of Parliament and King George.

From the Continental Army’s invasion of Canada in 1775 to Great Britain’s plan in 1780 to capture St. Louis and regain the Illinois County, residents of what is now Wisconsin participated in the Thirteen Colonies’ war for independence.

Mary Elise Antoine will explain how Canadians and Native people of the western Great Lakes-upper Mississippi region were part of the American Revolution, who participated and why they fought, the results of the battles in which they fought, and the effect of the war in what is now Wisconsin.

Event Details

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History Makers Tour – NC

pchswi@gmail.com

Location

Heritage Park

2700 Madison Avenue

Plover, WI 54467

Details

Date: May 12
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm