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The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 1611860385. Poinsatte, Charles (1976). Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706–1828. Allen County, Fort Wayne Historical Society. Skaggs, David Curtis (2014). William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War ...
The massacre was the first Native American attack against U.S. settlers in Indiana during the War of 1812. It is sometimes stated to be part of the larger conflict between the U.S. and Native Americans in the Northwest Territory, [ 8 ] though other historians point to previous interactions between the Natives and their victims as a source of ...
Assumed command after commanding flotilla of supply boats to Fort Wayne. [17] Major John Whistler: 1814–1817 Was a British soldier at the Battles of Saratoga. Had been with Wayne's legion and helped build original Fort Wayne. Also built first Fort Dearborn, where he served as the first commandant. [16] Built third Fort Wayne in 1815. [18]
The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [283] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
Numerous American citizens from Indiana enlisted in United States Army and militia units during the war, including the Indiana Rangers, and served in various theaters. In September 1812, months after the war's outbreak, British-allied Native Americans laid siege to two U.S. military forts in Indiana, Fort Harrison and Fort Wayne. Both sieges ...
Sep. 27—PLATTSBURGH — One of the lasting pieces of advice Keith Herkalo's mentor gave him was to, "Let the documents speak for themselves." So when Herkalo, president of the War of 1812 Museum ...
Aggregate of articles pertaining to museums about the War of 1812. Pages in category "Museums of the War of 1812" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
In the War of 1812 Ewing became a colonel in the Miami County militia which joined General Harrison in his relief expedition to Fort Wayne in 1812. [10] Colonel Ewing served with the army in a detachment of spies under his brother-in-law, Captain William Griffith, who was a survivor of the Ford Dearborn Massacre.