Editing Battle of Windsor (section)

==Aftermath==

After the second pursuit, Colonel Prince lined up another seven prisoners in front of the burned barracks and ordered them shot as well. Influential local citizens dissuaded him from this action. Local citizens later published a circular against Prince, leading one of them, William R. Wood, to have to duel him.<ref>"Uppermost Canada," by R. Alan Douglas, pp. 171–173."</ref> Prince survived the duel unharmed. A court martial mostly exonerated him, but the matter made its way to the floor of Parliament. No censure occurred there either as the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] steered the discussion away from Prince to the general topic of the need to use regular troops to defend Canada from American invasion.

Joshua Doan of [[Sparta, Ontario|Sparta, Upper Canada]], was among the several dozen Hunter Patriots captured in Windsor, and he was later hanged for treason. Other were sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen's Land, others to [[Bermuda]].

The Michigan militia remained stationed at the United States Arsenal in [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]], and were used to track down remaining groups of Patriots in the area. This conflict led to the reorganization of the Michigan militia because its structure was found to be insufficient to deal with such rebellions. The U.S. Army constructed [[Fort Wayne (Detroit)|Fort Wayne]] in Detroit in 1842 to strengthen U.S. defenses as a counter to [[Fort Malden]] in Amherstburg, rebuilt during the war. The [[Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse|blockhouses]] built by the British on Bois Blanc Island during the war were manned until the 1850s.

These events at Windsor formed the last military action of the rebellions in [[Upper Canada Rebellion|Upper]] and [[Lower Canada Rebellion|Lower Canada]] of 1837–38.

An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected by the province to commemorate the Battle of Windsor's role in Ontario's heritage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_DEF/Plaque_Essex23.html|title=Ontario Plaque|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017045509/http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_DEF/Plaque_Essex23.html|archivedate=2008-10-17}}</ref>