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The siege of Fort Wayne took place from September 5 – September 12, 1812, during the War of 1812.The stand-off occurred in the modern city of Fort Wayne, Indiana between the U.S. military garrison at Fort Wayne and a combined force of Potawatomi and Miami forces.
During the War of 1812, Fort Dearborn (present-day Chicago) was evacuated and its residents tried to reach Fort Wayne under the direction of William Wells, but were massacred before they arrived. Fort Wayne was besieged next by the Indian forces of Tecumseh during the Siege of Fort Wayne. [10]
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 were unsuccessful as the besiegers were eventually forced to withdraw due to a lack of reinforcements.
Siege of Fort Harrison: September 4 – 5, 1812 Terre Haute: War of 1812: 3+ United States of America vs Tecumseh's confederacy Siege of Fort Wayne: September 5 – 12, 1812 Fort Wayne: War of 1812: Detroit Frontier unknown United States of America vs Kingdom of Great Britain: Battle at Eel River [3] September 19, 1812 Near Churubusco: War of ...
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.
The Miami of Fort Wayne trusted Wells, who had been adopted into their tribe, while U.S. government officials questioned Wells' loyalty and sided with Johnston. [2] Johnston remained at Fort Wayne through a period of growing resentment between the American Indians and the United States, [4] and filed a report summarizing Indian accounts of the ...
William Wells (c. 1770 – 15 August 1812), also known as Apekonit ("Carrot top"), was the son-in-law of Chief Little Turtle of the Miami. He fought for the Miami in the Northwest Indian War. During the course of that war, he became a United States Army officer, and also served in the War of 1812.
“National Tomb of the unknown Soldiers of 1812” which soon comes to symbolize the sacrifices of all service members in the war of 1812. The death toll total of some 41,700 Americans in proportion to a population of roughly eight million (circa 1813) places the War of 1812 as the third most lethal foreign war in U.S. history.