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	Fort Wayne - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		FORT WAYNE, a city and the county-seat of Allen county, Indiana, U.S.A., 102 m.
		It is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville, the Grand Rapids and Indiana, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the New York, Chicago and St Louis, the Pennsylvania and the Wabash railways, and also by interurban electric lines.
		In September 1813 Fort Wayne was besieged by Indians, who withdrew on the arrival, on the 12th of September, of General Harrison with about 2700 men from Kentucky and Ohio.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Fort_Wayne (523 words)

	Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Wayne in current Fort Wayne, Indiana was established by Captain John Hamtramck under orders from General "Mad" Anthony Wayne as part of the campaign against the Indians of the area.
		Fort Miami, built by the French under Jean Baptiste Bissot, in 1715, was originally called Fort St. Philippe and was also known as Fort des Miamis at the present-day city of Fort Wayne, Indiana where the St.
		Fort Wayne was next besieged by the Indian forces of Tecumseh during the Siege of Fort Wayne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forts_of_Fort_Wayne,_Indiana (428 words)

	Fort Wayne - Delray
		Fort Wayne is located at the foot of Livernois Avenue, fronting on the Detroit River, which is about a mile wide to the Canadian shore.
		The fort expanded from campsite to full fledged fort status with the outbreak of the Civil War, and became a training ground for volunteers on their way to Civil War battlefields.
		No siege ever threatened the base of masonry and brick seven and a half feet thick and none of the six brass cannons were ever used, nor were any of the guns mounted 'en barbette' fired over the parapet.
	www.geocities.com /unearthdetroit/wayne.html (382 words)

	News-Sentinel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After this fort was destroyed by Indians in 1747, the French built a new fort on the St. Joseph River (near the present Tennessee Avenue bridge), just north of several Indian villages at the confluence of the rivers.
		The command at Fort Wayne was given to Hamtramck in recognition of his bravery at the battle of Fallen Timbers, but it was a troubled command.
		It was this structure that withstood the hardships of the Indian wars that erupted between 1800 and 1812 because of white encroachment on Indian lands, the disintegration of native culture and the goading of the British.
	jordan.fortwayne.com /ns/heartland/history/haw21.php (1593 words)

	Fort McAllister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort McAllister is located on the south side of the Ogeechee River.
		A Confederate earthwork during the Civil War, the fort was ordered to be built in 1861 to protect the back end of Savannah.
		The fort finally fell on December 3,1864, when the Union soldiers made an unexpected attack from the marsh.
	www.promotega.org /asu00003/fortmcallister.html (124 words)

	FORT WAYNE - Online Information article about FORT WAYNE
		In 1749–1750 the French fort (Fort Miami) was moved to the E. bank of the St Joseph.
		Anthony Wayne built on the S. bank of the Maumee river the stockade fort which was named in his honour, the site of which forms the present Old Fort Park.
		Vincennes reserved to the United States by the-treaty of Greenville was described and defined; by the second treaty of Fort Wayne, concluded by Harrison on the 3oth of September 18091 the Indians sold to the United States about 2,900,000 acres of land, mostly S.E. of the Wabash river.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FORT_WAYNE.html (1028 words)

	Wayne County Historian Monthly Features
		Anthony Wayne was thirty- one at the outbreak of the Revolution.
		In 1778, Anthony Wayne was sent by Washington to dislodge the British from Stony Point on the Hudson River.
		The fort was located at the top of a very steep, rocky hill, surrounded on three sides by water and accessible by land only through a marsh which overflowed daily with the tide.
	www.co.wayne.ny.us /Departments/historian/MFWayne.htm (612 words)

	Fort Wayne Community Net: Fort Wayne History
		Fort Wayne at this time was considered a barbaric and wild and woolly frontier town.
		Fort Wayne prospered and grew, gamblers publicly reformed, civilization took hold, and the present Allen County Public Library had its beginning in the 1890s.
		Fort Wayne’s park system includes a world class children’s zoo, a botanical garden and a showplace park that is the direct result of planning after the devastating flood of 1982.
	www.ft-wayne.in.us /home/history.html (587 words)

	Allen County - Fort Wayne Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Wayne was named for the fort established by General Anthony Wayne dedicated October 22, 1794.
		The second French fort was erected in 1750, surrendered to the British in 1760.
		On June 3, 1883, Fort Wayne hosted the Quincy Professionals for the first lighted baseball game involving a professional team (the very first lighted game of any kind was played earlier that year in Lowell, Massachussetts).
	www.fwhistorycenter.com /ahfaq.htm (804 words)

	News-Sentinel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And in 1828, the Indian agency was moved from Fort Wayne to the Logansport area.
		On Feb. 22, 1832, construction began in Fort Wayne on the Wabash and Erie Canal.
		Fort Wayne was called the Summit City because it was the highest point on the canal route.
	jordan.fortwayne.com /ns/heartland/history/rhist7.php (2108 words)

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		Siege of fort Meigs--Tecumseh commands the Indians--acts with intrepidity--rescues the American prisoners from the tomahawk and scalping knife, after Dudley's defeat--reported agreement between Proctor and Tecumseh, that general Harrison, if taken prisoner, should be delivered to the latter to be burned CHAPTER XIII.
		Several times the buildings of the fort were set on fire by the burning arrows which were shot upon them, but by the vigilance of the garrison in extinguishing the flames, a general conflagration was prevented.
		On their route, while opposite fort Massac, they engaged in a buffalo chase, during which Tecumseh was thrown from his horse, and had his thigh broken.[A] This accident detained them for some months at the place where it occurred.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/5/8/15581/15581.txt (18130 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Wayne
		Fort Wayne is located at the foot of Livernois Avenue, fronting on the Detroit River, which at this point is about a mile wide to the Canadian shore.
		The moat around the fort proper, was neverfilled with water; in fact, no provision for filling it has ever been indicated by, or on any of the engineering drawing.
		The Fort is still owned by the City of Detroit and run by the Detroit Historical Museum.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortwayne.asp (732 words)

	Fort Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jackson is the oldest fort still standing today in Georgia.
		The fort was first built in 1808 and was active during the War of 1812.
		They called it the "Mud Fort." The fort was named in honor of James Jackson, the Govenor of Georgia, and a Revolutionary War Colonel.
	www.promotega.org /asu00003/fortjackson.html (95 words)

	American Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An avid reader of military history, he organized a militia company and was in the thick of the war from the time of his 1776 appointment as the colonel of the 4th Pennsylvania Battalion.
		In the spring of 1781, Wayne took his troops to Virginia and served under Lafayette in trying to thwart the British.
		Wayne died in Erie, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1796.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Ythanout/Waynebio.htm (257 words)

	Battle of Fallen Timbers/Site Inspection-Ft. Miamis
		Fort Miamis marks the high water mark of Wayne's advance during the 1794 campaign, and its construction was part of the final attempt by the British to hold on to lands conceded to the U.S. by the Treaty of Paris a decade earlier.
		Fort Miamis is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as an historic site and is significant for its association with the Fallen Timbers campaign of 1794 and the Siege of Fort Meigs in 1813.
		Fort Miamis served as the headquarters area for British efforts to retain (in 1794) and regain (in 1813) control of the Maumee River region and the southern shore of Lake Erie.
	www.heidelberg.edu /FallenTimbers/FTIns.FMiamis.html (1142 words)

	NAMED CAMPAIGNS - INDIAN WARS
		Josiah Harmar moved north from Fort Washington (Cincinnati) and was badly defeated in two separate engagements on 18 and 22 October 1790 in the vicinity of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana.
		Wayne joined his troops near Pittsburgh in June 1792 and reorganized his Regulars to form a "Legion" composed of four sub-legions, each a "combat team" consisting of two battalions of infantry, a battalion of rifles, a troop of dragoons, and a company of artillery.
		Wayne moved forward in July with a force of some 3,000 men, including 1,400 levies from Kentucky, paused to build Fort Defiance at the junction of the Glaize and Maumee, and resumed pursuit of the Indians on 15 August.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/iwcmp.htm (4375 words)

	Lossing's Field Book of the War of 1812, Chapter XV - Military Events in the then Far Northwest.
		Kinzie, came to Chicago from Fort Wayne as the bearer of a dispatch from General Hull to Captain Heald, in which the former announced his arrival at Detroit with an army, the declaration of war, the invasion of Canada, and the loss of Mackinack.
		When in sight of the fort his acquisitiveness overpowered his gallantry, and he was taking her bonnet from her head in order to scalp her, when she was discovered by Mrs.
		7 Fort Dearborn was erected under the superintendence of Major John Whistler, who was also the overseer of the construction of Fort Wayne, at the forks of the Maumee.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~wcarr1/Lossing2/Chap15.html (14957 words)

	Piqua Ohio History - John Johnston
		He was also honored with a conspicuous place in the funeral procession of General Washington's commemorative of his life and death, in the city of Philadelphia, in the winter of 1799 and 1800.
		Early in 1812, this was made a government agency, and at the breaking out of the war, all the neutral tribes were removed to this point and placed under his supervision.
		In August of 1812, the northern Indians under the influence of Tecumseh laid siege to Fort Wayne.
	www.piquaoh.org /johnston.htm (1012 words)

	Anthony Wayne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Anthony Wayne was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1745.
		Wayne played an active role in the coming of the American Revolution.
		In 1792, President George Washington appointed Wayne as the commander of the United States Army of the Northwest, currently serving in the Northwest Territory.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=398 (865 words)

	Brief Histories — Fort Stanwix National Monument Fourth Grade Education Packet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1776 the former Fort Stanwix was rebuilt and renamed Fort Schuyler, in honor of General Philip Schuyler.
		The fort continued to be garrisoned by American troops until the spring of 1781, when a combination of heavy spring rains and fire destroyed a good deal of the fort and rendered it indefensible.
		By August 19 the British were able to push their siege lines within 150 yards of the northwest corner of the fort, trying to destroy the powder magazine.
	www.nps.gov /fost/edpackets/fourthhistories.htm (4479 words)

	Battle of Fallen Timbers/Site Inspection-Locked Together
		It resembles Wayne's camp at Greeneville and was commanded by William Henry Harrison, who was Wayne's aid in the Fallen Timbers Campaign and a veteran of the battle.
		Although the fort was beyond repair, the British troops camped on the grounds and used the area as a base of operations.
		As the siege of Fort Meigs commenced, there is no doubt that all concerned realized that they were reliving history.
	www.heidelberg.edu /fallentimbers/FTIns.locked.html (684 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Fort Meigs State Memorial, Perrysburg, OH
		Fort Meigs, a sprawling log-and-earth fortification on the Maumee River, became the focal point of the war in 1813.
		With a strong fort, 1,200 troops, twenty to thirty pieces of artillery - and the knowledge that reinforcements were on the way - Harrison was concerned only about his small supply of ammunition.
		The fort reconstruction, begun by the Ohio Historical Society in 1965, re-creates the stockade as it was during the first British siege of 1813.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/af/43552.htm (1445 words)

	www.ohiohistory.org \| Document Transcriptions of the War of 1812 in the Northwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Winchester met with the Indians the day after his departure from Fort Wayne but he was not able to ascertain their members [numbers?] or there position.
		When he arrived within a few Miles of Fort Defiance he found the Tracts of the Enemies Carriages on the south side of the Miami both going and returning and upon further Examination it was discovered that they had not advanced more than eight or ten Miles above Fort Defiance.
		I sent also a Battallion of Ohio Infantry to Fort Wayne with a supply of provisions & for the purpose of collecting for the Garrison a Quantity of Fuel which they are unable to get from the distance they have to have it when there are parties of Indians round them.
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/war1812/harrison/hpage038.cfm (1539 words)

	Battles for the year 1812
		The Battle of Fort Harrison was a decisive victory for the United States against an Indian force which greatly outnumbered thier own.
		The fort was named in Harrison's honor and when the War of 1812 began, Capt. Zachary Taylor was in command of the post.
		The Battle of Fort Harrison was a decisive victory and is considered the first land victory of the United States during the War of 1812.
	www.mywarof1812.com /battles/120904.htm (328 words)

	THE DIARY OF WILLIAM BROOKS NORTHCUTTCopyright Kentucky Historical Society- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About the first of Sept. 1812 the Indians layed siege to Fort Wayne then in the Indiana territory and the Kentucky troops under the command of General Harrison started from their camp at Mill Creek and went on a forced march to the relief of the fort.
		The siege was raised and the Squadron, according to orders, came on back the way that we had gone out until we arrived back at Urbana and there we took the road to Franklinton.
		The fort was built in a four square with a block house at each corner and a wide deep ditch, all around it and picketted in with split logs about twelve inches thick and fifteen feet high and sharpened to a point at the top.
	home.comcast.net /~northcut/docs/wbndiary.htm (12788 words)

	History of Indiana, Indian Campaigns, Attack on Fort Wayne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the attack on Fort Harrison and the Pigeon Roost Massacre there were several offensive campaigns directed against the hostile tribes of northern Indiana.
		The Indians arranged for a conference inside the fort, their object being treachery, but they were frustrated.
		Then they laid siege to the place and, aided by some ingenious British, made a "bluff" of having artillery by constructing two wooden cannon, reinforced by hoopiron, which promptly burst when fired.
	www.countyhistory.com /history/099.htm (169 words)

	Native American Clashes with European Settlers
		In November 1758, the British captured Fort Duquesne at present-day Pittsburgh, the key to French control of the Ohio Valley.
		In 1768, the Six Nations and Cherokee signed the Treaty of Hard Labour and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, relinquishing their claims on the territory between the Ohio River and the Alleghenies to the British.
		During the three-day siege, the Indians destroyed most of the homes around the fort and killed a number of soldiers in the fort.
	www.wvculture.org /hiStory/indland.html (1804 words)

	THE FORT DEARBORN MASSACRE
		The fort was a simple stockade of logs that were placed on end, sharpened at the top and then planted firmly into the ground.
		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.
		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)

	City of Maumee, Ohio
		The British eventually surrendered Fort Miamis to the United States in 1796, and it is now a city park, where a recent archeological dig discovered some remnants from the original Fort Miamis.
		Instead of returning to the fort as planned, the raw recruits, exhilarated by their success, pursued some straggling Indians into the forest (“every Kentuckian is crazy at the sight of an Indian,” the old history books say).
		Fort Wayne ran by the front door of the Inn, and only a few feet away, stretched docks and warehouses where ships arrived and departed several times a day.
	www.maumee.org /recreation/historical.htm (2846 words)

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