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Father Edmund Burke, a stocky Irish priest, was appointed by the British governor of Canada to be pastor of St. Anthony's parish on the River Raisin in Michigan Territory in 1794. He worked to quell French dissidents and priests who favored the American government against the British government of Canada. Burke was the target of asasination plots by French Canadians and General Anthony Wayne of the Ameerican army.
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The transfer of the Old Northwest Territory from British to American control after the Revolutionary War may have been delayed, if Burke had succeeded in his spy mission.
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This page is a summary of: From Fallen Timbers to the British Evacuation of Detroit, 1794-1796: The Roman Catholic Priest Who Was a British Agent, Michigan Historical Review, January 2011, Michigan Historical Review,
DOI: 10.5342/michhistrevi.37.1.0041.
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