COMMANDER // 1753–1825
William Hull
Lifespan
1753 – 1825
Active service 1812 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 59.
Profile
Brigadier General William Hull was an American army officer and politician. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he later served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1805–1813), where he negotiated land cessions with Native Americans through the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. Hull is most widely remembered, as the general in the first months of the War of 1812 (1812–1815), who surrendered Fort Detroit to the British Army on August 16, 1812, ending the siege of Detroit.
Battles (1)
1812
DetroitWar of 1812 · United States