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	Fort Dearborn Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Fort Dearborn Massacre occurred on August 15, 1812 near Fort Dearborn in the United States during the War of 1812.
		The massacre followed the evacuation of the fort ordered by the commander of the US forces, General Hull.
		About two miles south of Fort Dearborn, a band of Potawatomi Indians, led by Chief Blackbird, ambushed the garrison, killing 86 of the fleeing Americans and capturing the remainder as prisoners to sell to the British as slaves.
	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Fort_Dearborn_Massacre (191 words)

	Fort Dearborn
		By 1808 the fort rose on a small hill of the south bank of the Chicago River, which wrapped along the Lake Michigan shoreline instead of emptying directly into the lake as it does today.
		In August 1812, the American force evacuated Fort Dearborn and was attacked along the lakeshore by area Indians as the contingent began its journey to Fort Wayne.
		The new fort was the center for military activity during the Black Hawk War, and area residents took refuge there as well.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/477.html (322 words)

	Forts of Illinois..... History of Illinois Forts presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails History Group
		Fort Armstrong, named in honor of former as having been Secretary of War John Armstrong, was described as having been situated on the lower extremity of the island where the shoreline consisted of 30-foot high perpendicular cliffs of limestone.
		FORT DEARBORN, the name of a United States military post, established at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1803 or 1804, on a tract of land six miles square conveyed by the Indians in the treaty of Greenville, concluded by General Wayne in 1795.
		In 1759 and 1760, the fort was significantly rebuilt and renamed Fort Massiac in honor of the French minister of marine, the marquis de Massiac.
	genealogytrails.com /ill/forts.html (13185 words)

	CPL- Chicago's Front Door
		In the summer of 1812, Captain Nathan Heald, Commander of Fort Dearborn, was ordered to evacuate the fort and proceed with his command to the safety of Fort Wayne.
		Fort Dearborn itself was pillaged and burned to the ground.
		Fort Dearborn was again garrisoned in 1828, with the renewal of Indian hostilities; but in 1836, all troops were permanently withdrawn and the fort ceased to exist as a military post.
	www.chipublib.org /digital/lake/FortDearborn.html (342 words)

	THE FORT DEARBORN MASSACRE
		He was also the uncle of Captain Heald’s wife and after hearing of the evacuation of Fort Dearborn, and knowing the hostile fervor of the local tribes, headed straight to the fort to assist them in their escape.
		For Dearborn itself was burned to the ground by the victorious Indians and the bodies of the massacre victims were left where they had fallen, scattered to decay on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.
		When replacement troops arrived at the site of Fort Dearborn a year later, they were greeted with not only the burned-out shell of the fort, but the grinning skeletons of their predecessors and the luckless settlers.
	www.prairieghosts.com /dearborn.html (2123 words)

	EarlyChicagoHOME
		U.S. Army private at Fort Dearborn, enlisted in December 1805; was ill at the time of the massacre of Aug. 15, 1812, and was killed in the sickwagon.
		The wooden beams were horizontally arranged, as is evident on the Fort Dearborn draft prepared by Capt. Whistler in 1808.
		But despite this, the Fort Dearborn attack, first of a series, was ordered, and occurred on Aug. 15, 1812, quickly escalating from an assault on a military objective into the atrocities of a massacre of military and civilian personnel.
	www.earlychicago.com /encyclopedia.php?letter=K (8914 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fort Dearborn, named in honor of Henry Dearborn, was a United States fort built on the Chicago River in 1803 by troops under Captain John Whistler.
		The American forces garrisoned the fort until 1823, when peace with the Indians led the garrison to be deemed redundant.
		A few boards from the old fort were retained and are now in the Chicago History Museum in Lincoln Park.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fort_Dearborn (350 words)

	Definition of Fort Dearborn
		Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built on the Chicago River in 1803 under John Whistler on the site of present-day Chicago.
		The Americans garrisoned the fort until 1823, when peace with the Indians led the garrison to be deemed redundant.
		In 1933, a stamp was issued in honor of the fort.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Fort_Dearborn (389 words)

	Roosevelt University - History of Chicago - Module 1 Chapter 1
		At the outset this was also important as the small community that gathered near Fort Dearborn consisted primarily of local French and British fur traders and Indians who depended on the fur trade for their existence.
		As before, the dual purpose of the new Fort Dearborn was to subdue the Indians and to restore control of the fur trade from the British.
		The garrison had returned to Fort Dearborn in October of 1828, but with increased settlement of the area and with the continual dependency of the Indians on the Federal government peace seemed insured and the garrison was removed again in May of 1831.
	www.roosevelt.edu /chicagohistory/mod1-chap1.htm (7239 words)

	The War of 1812
		The evacuation of the fort, located near the mouth of the Chicago River, comes as Hull’s confidence in his Northwestern campaign begins to crumble.
		After hearing that Fort Mackinac has fallen to the enemy, Hull decides that Fort Dearborn is at risk.
		The American public was outraged by the brutality of the Fort Dearborn Massacre and cried for revenge.
	www.galafilm.com /1812/e/events/ftdearborn.html (540 words)

	Juliette M. Kinzie’s Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the North-West
		Fort Winnebago, still under construction in 1830, had been established when the Winnebago war ended in 1828, in order to guard the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.
		In the same year that Juliette and John were married and went to Fort Winnebago, the whole Kinzie family (which consisted of John’s widowed mother along with his brothers and sisters) officially registered their claim to the 102-acre tract of land bordering the Chicago River and Lake Michigan that was their original homestead.
		Travel accounts, massacre stories, captivity narratives, Indian folktales, landscape descriptions--all these were literary practices with considerable popular appeal during the first half of the nineteenth century; thus, her apparently artless and entirely "natural" firsthand account is actually mediated through numerous literary models.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/emeritus/baym/essays/waubun.htm (4358 words)

	Graceland Cemetery: John Kinzie
		Fort Dearborn was soon established at the mouth of the river, and Kinzie's influence in the area grew as he traded with the soldiers at the fort and the natives.
		On August 15, 1812, an attack by Pottawatomie Indians left about forty dead, in what is known as the "Fort Dearborn Massacre".
		Kinzie had originally been buried in the Fort Dearborn cemetery, then moved to the original north side City Cemetery, and again to the new City Cemetery in what is now Lincoln Park.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/kinzie.html (200 words)

	The Fort Dearborn Massacre :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated to the preservation of military history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After delivering up our arms we were taken back to their encampment near the fort, and distributed among the different tribes.
		The next morning they set fire to the fort and left the place, taking the prisoners with them.-Their number of warriors was between four and five hundred, mostly of the Potawatamie nation, and their loss, from the best information I could get, was about 15.
		Heald and myself were taken to the mouth of the river St. Joseph, and both being badly wounded, were permitted to reside with Mr.
	www.patriotfiles.com /article.php?sid=295 (855 words)

	The Massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I have heard it said that when the fort was evacuated the Pottawatomies pretended to be acting as escorts for the soldiers, when, in fact, they were luring them to their death.
		On August 15, 1812, the fort was evacuated, and the line of march commenced southward along the shore of Lake Michigan.
		Detroit was surrendered to the British and Indians the day after the evacuation of Fort Dearborn of Chicago, and Fort Meigs the day after,which points to the fact that there must have been an understanding between the British and Indians to take all the forts of the Northwest as near the same time as possible.
	harpers.org /TheMassacreOfFortDearbornAtChicago.html (4829 words)

	STRAUS3
		Eight years later in 1803 the government built a small military post, Fort Dearborn, on the south bank at the mouth of the Chicago River to discourage British trade with the Indians.
		There was serious settlement disruption during the War of 1812 and the Fort Dearborn Massacre, but the Fort was rebuilt in 1816, and in 1830 the sandbar at the mouth of the River was dug out and a 1000 foot pier was built on the north to prevent further sand from obstructing the River mouth.
		On November 2nd, 1835, they passed an important resolution saying that when Fort Dearborn lands were sold by the U.S. Government, the town should buy a central 20 acre square whose eastern margin was shore line to be reserved for all time as a public square accessible to all people.
	www.chilit.org /STRAUS4.HTM (1922 words)

	Fort Dearborn Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library fort dearborn life and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere faC'ade.
		Fort Dearborn massacre - The Fort Dearborn massacre occurred on August 15, 1812 near Fort Dearborn in the United States during the War of 1812.
		Fort Dearborn - Fort Dearborn, named in honor of Henry Dearborn was a United States fort built on the Chicago River in 1803 under John Whistler on the site of present-day Chicago, Illinois.
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	[No title]
		Although the major portion of this novel is set in areas other than Illinois, the sections concerning the Fort Dearborn massacre and the Council at Chicagou, at which the Indians sign away their rights to the land around Lake Michigan, enable the reader to put these events in Illinois history into their proper perspective.
		Ensign Ronan proves to be worthy of his commission when the Indians attack the soldiers, their wives, and children as they abandon Fort Dearborn for the safety of Fort Wayne in August of 1812.
		A short residency in the Fort Dearborn area brings him into contact with John Kinzie, son of the founder of Chicago.
	mccoy.lib.siu.edu /illinois/chap1-ad.htm (3748 words)

	Chicago: 1803-1812 The First Fort Dearborn
		A year later, Fort Dearborn, named in honor of the Secretary of War, was completed.
		After leaving the fort, the evacuees were attacked by Indians and many of the party were massacred and the fort was destroyed.
		In 1816 the fort was rebuilt and was thereafter occupied by United States troops for twenty-one years.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/timeline/ftdearborn.html (182 words)

	chapter 3
		The chiefs, however, in the immediate vicinity of Fort Dearborn were on amicable terms with the garrison.
		This massacre was followed by a succession of alarms at the garrison for several days, after which, for a short time, all apprehension of danger ceased.
		It was on the afternoon of the 7th of August that a friendly Pottawattamie chief named Winnemeg, or Catfish, arrived at Fort Dearborn bearing dispatches from Governor Hull, the commander-in-chief of the northwest, announcing the declaration of war against Great Britain.
	www.yawp.com /redmen/chapter3/page60.html (585 words)

	St. Valentine's Day Massacre .: ChiTownAds.com Online Library
		Some would argue that the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is not noteworthy as a gangland murder (these syndicate 'hits' were common throughout the 1920s, especially in Chicago).
		Some believe that these murders are so special because of the effect they had on the general public, and the outrage that followed emphatically demanded that something had to be done.
		Ironically, it is possible that the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre marks the beginning of the end for Al Capone and his empire.
	www.chitownads.com /k/idx/14/031/article/St_Valentines_Day_Massacre.html (1549 words)

	PJStar.com - Journal Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The fort was finally abandoned in 1720 during a short period of truce on the western frontier.
		The fort had probably been rebuilt several times and was still in existence when the British actually took over the area in 1765.
		The fort then remained vacant for many years, the enclosure being used by the citizens as a common for their cow-yard.
	www.pjstar.com /services/journalstar/peoriahistory.shtml (9492 words)

	Fort Dearborn
		Bust of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), namesake of Fort Dearborn and Secretary of War.
		Captain Nathan Heald became the second commander of Fort Dearborn when John Whistler was recalled to Detroit in 1810...
		The trails leading to Fort Dearborn followed the natural features of the land, staying on high ground and...
	www.everythingmichigan.net /dearborn-michigan/fort-dearborn.html (239 words)

	Tippecanoe-Complete List
		He was stationed at Fort Meigs in the winter of 1812-1813 and the summer of 1813.
		Abstract: Barnhart reviewed the sources for the massacre at Fort Dearborn, 1812, including letters by the soldier Walter K. Jordan (1783-1814), on Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, which may or may not have been the same letter to his wife Betcy.
		Jordan was a member of the Fort Wayne garrison who traveled with William Wells to Ft. Dearborn to rescue the beseiged whites, and he was present at the massacre where 130 people were killed.
	www.indiana.edu /~imaghist/online_content/vcsfrmpst/voices_tppcn/completelist.html (1714 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1803 the young United States built Fort Dearborn on a rise of sand across the stream from the sandbar.
		There is a story that when the Potawatomi threatened to attack the fort just before the massacre of 1812, the fleeing Americans, anxious to keep their supply of alcohol from the natives, hastily dumped it into the garrison's drainage ditch that led to the river.
		Following the massacre and the fort's destruction, the soldiers rebuilt the fort and dug a shortcut through the long, narrow sandbar that diverted and lengthened the river's path, and thus their own, to the lake.
	www.lakeclaremont.com /River/excerpts.html (3619 words)

	Fort Dearborn, Jerry Crimmins
		Before the city of Chicago, there was Fort Dearborn; and before Fort Dearborn, there were the Potawatomi.
		Early in the nineteenth century, the Potawatomi attempted to co-exist with the settlers at the newly built Fort Dearborn, and even competed with soldiers in sports contests.
		A suspenseful narrative, Fort Dearborn is also a remarkable historical account, minutely observed and meticulously documented, preserving a key moment in American history.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-2296-0 (410 words)

	Fort Dearborn -- book review
		It is also about the events leading up to the massacre and the lives of the men, women, and children who lived there, and the Indians, as well as what motivated the individuals and races to act as they did.
		Reading about the various warnings the military and civilian inhabitants of the fort and its environs received in the years, months, weeks, and days leading up to the tragic massacre gives one pause; if perhaps these warnings had been heeded sooner, the outcome might have been much different.
		It is true that the attack against Fort Dearborn was directly linked to and backed by a joint British/Indian strategy to attack several key places at roughly the same time.
	www.curledup.com /fortdear.htm (832 words)

	Bridgeport: Before the Canal
		The first American settlements that arose were farmer dwellings connected with the Charles Lee and Russell farm shortly after the establishment of Fort Dearborn (Charles Lee himself lived nearer the lake).
		This was the precursor to the Fort Dearborn Massacre later that summer.
		When they had gained the opposite side, they pulled some hay for the cattle--made a show of collecting them--and when they had gradually made a circuit, so that their movements were concealed by the haystacks, they took to the woods, which were close at hand, and made for the fort.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/LockZero/I.html (2193 words)

	Chicago History: Fort Dearborn
		About half the people in the group were killed by the Indians, the others were captured, and the Indians burned Fort Dearborn to the ground.
		In 1816, after the war ended, Fort Dearborn was rebuilt and slowly, settlers started to come back.
		They settled in the south parts of Illinois where they were safer but the new Fort Dearborn did help to protect the settlers.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215480/dearborn.htm (235 words)

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