Plan of Fort Leanue, [Detroit, 1809]. Pen and ink with watercolor.

The British constructed Fort Lernoult [phonetically spelled here] to strengthen the defenses of Detroit. The United States assumed control of the town in 1796 and in 1805 officially renamed its principal fortification Fort Detroit. This plan was probably given to Burbeck when he commanded at Detroit in 1808-1809. It shows the barracks and storehouses constructed in 1808-1809 within the fort’s thirty-year-old earthen walls. This is currently the best-known representation of Fort Detroit as it was when General William Hull surrendered it to the British in 1812.

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