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    Windsor, Ontario's modern street names pay tribute to this early wharf site on the upper Detroit River; McIntosh's mansion, called "Moy Hall, became Moy Street and Hall Street. This wharf and estate

    Nancy was but on the U. S. side of the river, just downstream of the palisaded town of Detroit, seen behind her in this painting. With the declaration of war, she was moved down to Amherstburg.

    The British under Millar Worsley hid Nancy two miles up the Nottawassauga River, but the American squadron still discovered her and attacked. She was hit by an American-installed howitzer shell that

    Pen & ink, watercolour, gouache on wove paper-card

    Courtesy Canada Steamship Lines' Marine Hist. Coll. The NANCY, Square Topsail Schooner, Built at Detroit, 1789 This vessel was one of the first mercantile marine vessels built on the upper lakes foll

    The "NANCY" From a drawing in the John Ross Robertson collection of Canadian Historical Pictures, Toronto Public Library. C. H. J. SNIDER

    Late morning, April 23, 1813, the British squadron led by General Hunter (foreground) and other smaller vessels, like Miamis and Nancy, set out to attack the American outpost of Fort Meigs. The Briti