A short distance to the northeast, a small stockade and blockhouse were built on June 22, 1812 by order of General William Hull for his nearly 2000-man army on its Detroit expedition during the War of 1812. Here, mired in mud, Hull, his Ohio militiamen, and army regulars rested, made paper cartridges, and then moved north with a lumbering wagon train to Detroit and eventual surrender. Word of Hull's surrender at Detroit on August 16, 1812 angered and panicked Ohioans, but from the ashes of humiliation arose a new resolve for victory against the British and their Indian allies in the War of 1812. Hull was a Revolutionary War soldier, the first territorial governor of Michigan, and a brigadier general in 1812.