Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site

Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site. . , This park commemorates battles and treaties with the British and American Indians that led to the westward expansion of the United States and statehood for Ohio., In the 1790s, residents of the newly formed United States were starting to move west into the Northwest Territory, a region controlled by American Indians and claimed by the British. To protect settlers, President George Washington sent General Anthony Wayne and a force of about 3,000 regulars and militia into the territory to build a series of forts between the Ohio and Maumee rivers., Waiting for them were about 1,000 warriors. Wayne's decisive victory in the battle led to other conflicts, treaties, and eventually the War of 18 12 with the British. The United States ultimately gained control of the territory., To learn more about these historic events, visit all three of the park's sites in Maumee., Fallen Timbers Battlefield, The Fallen Timbers Battlefield consists of 187 acres of open fields and a wooded area at the intersection of US 23 and I 475. Archeological explorations and historical research in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that this area was the actual site of the 1794 battle between U.S. troops and American Indians., Fallen Timbers Monument, The Fallen Timbers Monument is connected to the battlefield by a bike-pedestrian bridge over US 24, the Anthony Wayne Trail. A bronze statue of General Wayne is located on a bluff overlooking the Maumee River in Side Cut Metropark. For many years the battle was thought to have occurred on the bluff and the floodplain below., Fort Miamis, Fort Miamis is located on River Road about four miles east of the battlefield. Earthen mounds you see today were part of the fort built in 1794 by the British to stop U.S. military advances in the Maumee Valley and to solidify American Indian support against the westward spreading of U.S. settlements. The British later used the fort site in the War of 18 12.