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About William Hull
Brigadier General William Hull was an American army officer and politician. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he later served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1805–1813), where he negotiated land cessions with Native Americans through the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. Hull is most widely remembered as the general in the first months of the War of 1812 (1812–1815) who surrendered Fort Detroit to the British Army on August 16, 1812, ending the siege of Detroit.
Everything about William Hull →- Occupation
- lawyer, politician, judge, governor
- Position held
- Governor of Michigan, member of the State Senate of Massachusetts
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 24, 1753
- Died
- November 29, 1825