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Monroe, Michigan: George Armstrong Custer statue
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Monroe, city, seat (1817) of Monroe county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It lies at the mouth of the River Raisin, on Lake Erie, between Detroit (about 40 miles [60 km] northeast) and Toledo, Ohio (about 12 miles [20 km] southwest). French Canadians founded a community on the north bank of the Raisin in the 1780s that came to be called Frenchtown; during the War of 1812, it was the scene of the River Raisin Massacre (January 22, 1813) of Gen. James Winchester’s U.S. troops by Indians allied with England. The village never recovered, and in 1817 American settlers laid out a ...(100 of 238 words)

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