Michigan Territory
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Michigan Territory".
Nov 1, 2026
Peter WaitzmanHOST
The story begins in 1817, three decades before Michigan would become a state.
Peter WaitzmanHOST
The Michigan Territory was still a frontier outpost, with Detroit being little more than a small town of about 1,200 people on the edge of the American wilderness.
Peter WaitzmanHOST
On August 26, 1817, this territorial legislature, led by Governor Louis Cass and Judge Augustus Ward, established what they called the Catholic Epistemiad, or the University of Michigania.
Peter WaitzmanHOST
The name, a bizarre combination of Greek and Latin coined by Judge Woodward, roughly translated to School of Universal Knowledge.
speaker_0HOST
And the mission for this deep dive is to uncover how early military engineers and tacticians, well, they didn't just fight battles, they literally mapped, built, and paved the foundation of early America.
speaker_2HOST
And we're gonna look specifically at how they did this in the Michigan Territory, which is just a perfect case study for this.
speaker_0HOST
It is.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, let's unpack this.
speaker_0HOST
So let's look at the War of 1812 and this thing called Hull's Trace.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
speaker_2HOST
So in 1812, US troops under General William Hull are ordered to build the Michigan Territory's very first military road.
speaker_0HOST
And the goal here was an invasion, right?
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
They agree to go upon this business of examination on the 1st of May next.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Second, if they approve the country, they consent to accept it acre for acre for theirs, provided it be cleared of everybody and guaranteed to them forever, and provided they be placed upon it in such improvements as, on examination, they may be found to own here, in houses, mills, fences, orchards, stock, etc., and provided the country be laid off into counties, and schools established in sufficient number for the education of their sons and daughters, and a government be established over them upon the basis of that of the Michigan Territory, and provided that a suitable force be kept among them to secure them from harm, which they propose to augment by an organization of their people upon the plan of our militia, the whole to embrace on their part political privileges and civil advantages as these are laid down in your report.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
I need not tell you that I found the subject one of extreme delicacy, and the way to it almost wholly barred by excited prejudices and a deep sense of wrongs long endured.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Upon a full survey of the whole ground from Saturday till yesterday, I concluded there was but one way of approach.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
They agree to go upon this business of examination on the 1st of May next.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Second, if they approve the country, they consent to accept it acre for acre for theirs, provided it be cleared of everybody and guaranteed to them forever, and provided they be placed upon it in such improvements as, on examination, they may be found to own here in houses, mills, fences, orchards, stock, etc., and provided the country be laid off into counties and schools established in sufficient number for the education of their sons and daughters, and a government be established over them upon the basis of that of the Michigan Territory, and provided that a suitable force be kept among them to secure them from harm, which they propose to augment by an organization of their people upon the plan of our militia, the whole to embrace on their part political privileges and civil advantages as these are laid down in your report.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
I need not tell you that I found the subject one of extreme delicacy, and the way to it almost wholly barred by excited prejudices and a deep sense of wrongs long endured.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Upon a full survey of the whole ground from Saturday till yesterday, I concluded there was but one way of approach.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
They agree to go upon this business of examination on the first of May next.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Second, if they approve the country, they consent to accept it acre for acre for theirs, provided it be cleared of everybody and guaranteed to them forever, and provided they be placed upon it in such improvements as, on examination, they may be found to own here, in houses, mills, fences, orchards, stock, etc., and provided the country be laid off into counties, and schools established in sufficient number for the education of their sons and daughters, and a government be established over them upon the basis of that of the Michigan Territory, and provided that a suitable force be kept among them to secure them from harm, which they propose to augment by an organization of their people upon the plan of our militia, the whole to embrace on their part political privileges and civil advantages as these are laid down in your report.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
I need not tell you that I found the subject one of extreme delicacy, and the way to it almost wholly barred by excited prejudices and a deep sense of wrongs long endured.
Dan McNellenNARRATOR
Upon a full survey of the whole ground from Saturday till yesterday, I concluded there was but one way of approach.
SandraNARRATOR
They agree to go upon this business of examination on the 1st of May next.
SandraNARRATOR
Second, if they approve the country, they consent to accept it acre for acre for theirs, provided it be cleared of everybody and guaranteed to them forever, and provided they be placed upon it in such improvements as, on examination, they may be found to own here in houses, mills, fences, orchards, stock, etc., and provided the country be laid off into counties and schools established in sufficient number for the education of their sons and daughters, and a government be established over them upon the basis of that of the Michigan Territory, and provided that a suitable force be kept among them to secure them from harm, which they propose to augment by an organization of their people upon the plan of our militia, the whole to embrace on their part political privileges and civil advantages as these are laid down in your report.
SandraNARRATOR
I need not tell you that I found the subject one of extreme delicacy, and the way to it almost wholly barred by excited prejudices and a deep sense of wrongs long endured.
SandraNARRATOR
Upon a full survey of the whole ground