John Askin Jr. (c. 1765 – 1 January 1820) was a British Indian Department officer and merchant active in Upper Canada and Michigan.
Askin tried to rally and advise the beaten Native Americans, but was subjected by the victorious U.S. commander, Anthony Wayne, to administrative detention.
[3] In the latter post, he took the substantial career risk of issuing more than forty heavyweight Hudson's Bay point blankets in November 1811 to the fort's impecunious commander, Captain Charles Roberts, accepting a scrip warrant in payment.
[2] John's wife, Madelaine, and the other women of the fort sewed the blankets into the first Mackinaw jackets, which British Army soldiers used as greatcoats for winter fatigue duty.
The warriors recruited by Askin helped to sharply outnumber the 61 Americans present for duty, who were forced to surrender the fort without a shot.