At the portage between the Maumee and the Wabash, the French and then the British kept a post among the Miami people. Poinsatte traces the founding of the American Fort Wayne, the siege of 1812, the Indian trade that followed the fort’s evacuation, and the platting of the town and its first local government.
A well-documented study of the Old Northwest frontier for readers of Indiana and early American history. Download the free EPUB.