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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Pigeon Roost State Historic Site is located between Scottsburg and Henryville, Indiana, United States. A one-lane road off U.S. Route 31 takes the visitor to the site of a village where Native Americans massacred 24 settlers shortly after the War of 1812 began.
Pages in category "War of 1812 forts" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. ... Fort Wadsworth; Fort Wayne (fort) Battery Weed;
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.
Under the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, they were forced to cede this and other central Indiana land in punishment for their not having supported the United States in the war. [29] The site was redeveloped as the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana between 1819 and 1823. The old name was used for one of the first professional baseball teams, the Fort Wayne ...