Battle of Prairie du Chien

Battle of Prairie du Chien
	Part of the War of 1812
Date	July 17–20, 1814
Location	Prairie du Chien, Illinois Territory, United States43°02′40″N 91°08′50″W / 43.04444°N 91.14722°W
Result	British-Indigenous victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom; Indigenous Menominee; Ho-Chunk; Meskwaki;	United States
Commanders and leaders
William McKay	Joseph Perkins
Strength
c. 650 ; (77 Canadian militia)	61 Army regulars; 140 volunteers
Casualties and losses
3 wounded	7 wounded prisoners; 53 captured

The Battle of Prairie du Chien was a British victory in the far western theater of the War of 1812. During the war, Prairie du Chien was a small frontier settlement with residents loyal to both American and British causes. By 1814, both nations were anxious to control the site because of its importance to the fur trade and its strategic location at the intersection of the Mississippi River and the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a transportation route linking the Mississippi with the Great Lakes.