 Complete the following phrase:  The opening shots of the War of 1812 were fired in the vicinity of the forts future site, the sand hill at Springwells. Although war had not yet been officially declared, Michigan militiamen bombarded the town of Sandwich, Upper Canada later annexed into Windsor, on July 4, 1812. Later in the course of the war, British general Isaac Brock crossed the narrowest part of the Detroit River with his troops and landed on the future Fort Wayne site before marching to Detroit. In the ensuing 