British major who commanded the troops that captured Prairie du Chien in the summer of 1814.

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[Source: Grignon, Augustin. "Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/).]