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Fort Mackinac controlled the Mackinac Strait at the northern tip of Michigan, which linked Lake Michigan with Lake Huron. By the fall of 1814, the British had taken Detroit and the small garrison at Fort Mackinac, thus giving them control of the northern and southern entrances to Lake Huron. In August 1814, the U.S. decided to retake its territory.