A look back at a battle site in Monroe

5/20/2009
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    Members of Campeau Company, Detroit Militia, from the Revolutionary War period are, from left, re-enactors Tom and Shirley Lonsdale of Redford, Mich., and David Marquis of Plymouth, Mich., who portrays a member of the 42D Royal Highlanders, a British company in the American Revolution.

    Jetta Fraser

  • Re-enactor Kenneth Roberts of St. Claire Shores, Mich., sharpens a knife while wearing a United States Marines uniform during the recent annual open house at the visitors  center at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe.
    Re-enactor Kenneth Roberts of St. Claire Shores, Mich., sharpens a knife while wearing a United States Marines uniform during the recent annual open house at the visitors center at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe.


    Sherri Howard of Monroe talks to a visitor about the medicines of the period.
    Sherri Howard of Monroe talks to a visitor about the medicines of the period.


    Jeri Glover of Grosse Pointe Park gives a demonstration on making candles the way it was done in the period of the American Revolutionary War.
    Jeri Glover of Grosse Pointe Park gives a demonstration on making candles the way it was done in the period of the American Revolutionary War.


    Members of Campeau Company, Detroit Militia, from the Revolutionary War period are, from left, re-enactors Tom and Shirley Lonsdale of Redford, Mich., and David Marquis of Plymouth, Mich., who portrays a member of the 42D Royal Highlanders, a British company in the American Revolution.
    Members of Campeau Company, Detroit Militia, from the Revolutionary War period are, from left, re-enactors Tom and Shirley Lonsdale of Redford, Mich., and David Marquis of Plymouth, Mich., who portrays a member of the 42D Royal Highlanders, a British company in the American Revolution.