Fort Defiance Ohio was built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the second week of August 1794 at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers. It was one in a line of defenses constructed by American forces in the campaign leading to the Northwest Indian War's Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794. Two years earlier, it was the scene of one of the largest gatherings of American Indians (3,600 +/-) of its time in North America. After defeating the US Army under General St.Clair at Fort Recovery in 1791, the tribes discusses how to keep the Army and settlers out of their lands.
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Details of the fort's construction (memoranda of Benjamin Van Cleve):
Having arrived in sight of the Auglaize on the evening of the 7th of August, on the morning of the 8th the army marched to the confluence of the two rivers, and there took possession of the site. A deserter, named Newman, had left the army at St. Mary's, pushed forward to this spot, and notified the Indians of the army's near approach; the enemy had thereupon precipitately fled from their home.
Work was begun upon the stockades and block houses the morning of August 9th, and was continued until their completion. August 17th. The fort consisted of four block houses, by way of bastions; the houses next to the Maumee.... There was a line of pickets on each side of the fort, connecting the block houses by their nearest angles; outside of the pickets and around the blockhouses, was a glacis and wall of earth, eight feet thick, sloping upward and outward from the feet of the pickets, supported by a log wall on the side of the ditch and by facines, a wall of faggots, on the side next to the Auglaize.
A ditch, 15 feet wide & 8 feet deep, surrounded the whole work, except on the side toward the Auglaize. The diagonal pickets, 11 feet long and 1 foot apart, were securely fastened to the log wall and extended over the ditch. There was a gateway, upon the side of the stockade facing the confluence of the rivers, and also one in the stockade opposite thereto. Surrounding the bastions and stockade was a bank of earth, four feet wide, left for a passage across the ditch. At each of the stockade gates was a falling gate, or drawbridge, which was raised and lowered by pulleys across the ditch, covering it or leaving it uncovered at pleasure.
After surveying the construction, Wayne exclaimed: "I DEFY THE INDIANS, THE ENGLISH, AND ALL THE DEVILS IN HELL TO TAKE IT." General Scott, who happened at that instant to be standing at his side, remarked, "Then call it Fort Defiance."
While stopping at Fort Defiance, a messenger was sent to the Indians to offer terms of friendship. The messenger was delayed, and Wayne, becoming impatient, moved forward, meeting the messenger upon the 16th, with the tidings that if the Americans would wait for ten days at the Grand Glaize (Fort Defiance) they, the Indians, would decide for peace or war.
Error: I said "Pawnee" instead of "Shawnee".
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