![]() The rebels that remained behind quickly retreated from the island. On January 9, they sailed the Anne past Amherstburg, but ran aground south of the town and the militia captured the party on board. The rebel force landed on the southern end of the island and set up camp near the lighthouse. Fearing that movement toward Bois Blanc was a diversion for an assault on Amherstburg, the militia hastily withdrew from the island. On January 8, 1838, Canadian rebels and their American allies seized the schooner Anne and sailed down the Detroit River to Bois Blanc Island. ![]() After the outbreak of the Rebellions of 1837, militia volunteers occupied Bois Blanc Island to defend it from Canadian rebels and their American sympathizers. In 1837, the Government of Upper Canada authorized the construction of a lighthouse on the southern tip of the island to facilitate maritime navigation in the Detroit River. Bois Blanc Island was first recommended as a strategic defensive point by Lieutenant Colonel Gother Mann while the British were preparing replacement posts for those lost to the Americans during the American Revolution. ![]() ![]() Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1955 because: it was a point of attack by Canadian rebels and their American sympathizers in January 1838 the blockhouses, built in 1839, were part of the defences of Fort Malden. ![]()
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