1 ► Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne, East Central — The Last Two American Forts / The Siege of 1812 —

The Last Two American Forts In 1798, Col. Thomas Hunt began construction on this site of the second American fort at the Three Rivers. this fort, which was completed in 1800, replaced the first, hastily built one erected nearby to the . . . — — Map (db m21219) HM

2 ► Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne, East Central — Old Fort Wayne Well —

The "Old Well," an important factor in the existence of the fort and its people, saved the fort from Indian fire brands in 1812. Fort Wayne was first built, near by, in 1794. It was rebuilt, on this site, in 1804, and 1815. Research by . . . — — Map (db m21210) HM

3 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — 3-20 — Tale of Ensign James Liggett / Major Adam Charles Muir, 41st Regiment of Foot —

[Front Side of Marker]: "Tale of Ensign James Liggett" After American militia troops forcibly ended the 1812 siege of Fort Wayne, General James Winchester's Army of the Northwest marched down the north side of the Miami [Maumee] . . . — — Map (db m28336) HM

4 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — Route and Camp's —

Route and Camp's of Gen. Wayne, 1794, Gen. Harrison, 1812, and Winchester Camp No 2, and Abatis, 1812. — — Map (db m18991) HM

5 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — A96 — Fort Winchester — Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail — Wayne-Harrison-Winchester-Clay-Bird Marches —

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6 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — 2-20 — Spemica Lawba–Johnny Logan —

"Spemica Lawba-Johnny Logan" In September 1786, Captain Benjamin Logan of Kentucky captured a young Indian boy during a raid across the Ohio River on the Machachac tribe towns of the Shawnee nation. Upon returning to Kentucky, Captain Logan . . . — — Map (db m28338) HM

7 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — 4-20 — Fort Winchester —

[Front Text] : "Fort Winchester" General William Henry Harrison ordered the construction of Fort Winchester at the beginning of October 1812 and it was completed October 15. The fort served as a forward observation post and supply . . . — — Map (db m37974) HM

8 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — C32 — Fort Winchester — Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail —

Built by General Wm. H. Harrison in Oct. 1812 and named for General Winchester. For a time it was the only defensive work against the British and Indians in Northwestern Ohio. — — Map (db m18717) HM

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9 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Defiance — Coohcooche —

[First Marker] Coohcooche Mineral Spring 1790 Birthplace of Ottawa Chief Shabonee 1775 and Lodge of Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket 1792 Winchester Camp No 1 1812 [Second Marker] Chief Blue Jacket . . . — — Map (db m28354) HM

10 ► Ohio, Defiance County, Independence — 6-20 — Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Burial Grounds —

[Front Text] : "Winchester's Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation" Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River. Militiamen from Kentucky, part of the forces led by War of 1812 Brig. Gen. . . . — — Map (db m37924) HM

11 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Site of Battles of Jan. 18 - 22 —

[Marker Front] Site of Battles of Jan. 18 - 22 Gen. Winchester in Command, and River Raisin Massacre Jan. 23, 1813 [Marker Reverse] 800 Americans under Cols. Allen, Lewis and Wells Fought desperately against . . . — — Map (db m20041) HM

12 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Avalon Beach — LaPlaisance Bay Settlement —

When the War of 1812 began, LaPlaisance Bay settlement consisted of 14 homes along the creek. Medard LaBadie, considered a hero for his participation in the Battles of the River Raisin and those at Fort Meigs and Thames, was a French settler here. . . . — — Map (db m165272) HM

13 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Battles of the River Raisin —

[Marker side facing south] Describing the American victory of January 18, 1813, Capt. John McCalla of the 5th Kentucky, wrote: "I have seen the enemy, and I have seen him defeated. I have seen my fellow soldiers extended lifeless bloody . . . — — Map (db m20945) HM

14 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Sandy Creek Settlement —

Joseph Porlier Benac, Sandy Creek's first settler, was granted a tract of land here by the Potawatomi Indians Aug. 3, 1780. By the time of the War of 1812, sixteen homes lined the banks of the creek. Retreating Indians swept through the . . . — — Map (db m27245) HM

15 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — British Victory at Frenchtown — Reported missing

From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp a . . . — — Map (db m236279) HM

16 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — U.S. 17th Infantry Campsite — River Raisin Battlefield 1813 —

Elements of the U.S. 17th Infantry were camped in an open field just north of here when the British and Indians launched their surprise counterattack at dawn, January 22, 1813. The Americans held their ground here for 20 minutes before the Canadian . . . — — Map (db m20904) HM

17 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Skirmish Line —

In this vicinity and parallel to the driveway, a line of scattered human remains were detected in 2000, which may mark the main skirmish line of the 17th U.S. Infantry. The bodies of those killed lay exposed to the elements for some time after the . . . — — Map (db m20916) HM

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18 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Artillery — January 22, 1813 —

British Artillery on January 22nd consisted of six small cannons, mostly 3-pounders, with some small howitzers. The artillery pieces were first positioned about 400 yards north of here, just south of Mason Run Creek. These were used to good effect . . . — — Map (db m169608) HM

19 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Roundhead —

In the temporary absence of Tecumseh, the Native-American allies of the British were led by Wyandot Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-in-the-Water. Besides the Wyandots, Native forces included warriors from the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, . . . — — Map (db m21567) HM

20 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — A Storied Homestead —

Here, Francois Navarre, first white settler in Monroe, built his home. His 500 acre farm, acquired by deed from the Indians in 1785, afforded a center for the River Raisin colony, by 1790 an important frontier community. Col. Navarre was friend . . . — — Map (db m20933) HM

21 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Col. Francis Navarre —

First Indian Grant of land to the First White Settler In Monroe Col. Francis Navarre 1785 First White Child Born In Monroe Gen. Winchester's Headquarters 1813. — — Map (db m20938) HM

22 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Capture of Gen. Winchester —

Under attack by the British and Indians before dawn on Jan. 22, 1813, in the second Battle of the River Raisin, the U.S. 17th Infantry soon broke and fled south across the frozen river. Gen. James Winchester, the American commander, tried several . . . — — Map (db m20899) HM

23 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — The Old Hull Road —

"The Old Hull Road" over which The American Troops were driven by the English & Indian Allies Jan. 22, 1813 — — Map (db m20880) HM

24 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Indian Attack —

The Second Battle of the River Raisin Jan. 22, 1813, found nearly 400 American soldiers caught in retreat down this old road to Ohio. Those few who made it to this point, over a mile south of their camp, were ambushed by hidden Indians. The 40 . . . — — Map (db m27294) HM

25 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Death of Col. John Allen — Reported missing

Col. Allen tried vainly to rally the retreating Americans at the second Battle of the River Raisin, Jan. 22, 1813. Exhausted and disabled by a thigh wound, he faced the pursuing Indians near here. The colonel desperately defended himself at . . . — — Map (db m236275) HM

26 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — The American Surrender —

Protected only by a picket fence, nearly 500 Kentucky militiamen fought off three British charges on their camp along the river and silenced the British cannon with their long rifles in the second Battle of the River Raisin, Jan. 22, 1813. They . . . — — Map (db m27243) HM

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27 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Anderson Trading Post — Reported missing

On this property in 1812 was the trading post of John Anderson, famed Scottish pioneer of the River Raisin. Anderson, Colonel of the Militia in 1812, was taken prisoner at Detroit, later escaped. Mrs. Anderson, alone at the time of the . . . — — Map (db m236276) HM

28 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Indian Trading Post —

Site of early Indian Trading Post Tablets placed By the Women of the Civic Improvement Society Of Monroe — — Map (db m27729) HM

29 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — The Navarre - Anderson Trading Post —

In 1789, Heutrau Navarre, son of Detroit's Royal Notary, built this house, Michigan's oldest residence. Constructed of joined timbers, it is considered the best example of French colonial architecture in the state. Originally Navarre used it as a . . . — — Map (db m27316) HM

30 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Death of Capt. Woolfolk —

The American Capt. John Woolfolk hid in one of the French homes just east of here during the massacre at the River Raisin, Jan. 23, 1813. Indians searching the settlement found him. They claimed him as their prisoner and forced him to this spot. . . . — — Map (db m20882) HM

31 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Murder of Captain Hart — Reported missing

Captain Nathaniel G. T. Hart, brother-in-law of Henry Clay and inspector general of American Army of the Northwest under Harrison, was killed here during the massacre of the River Raisin January 22 - 23, 1813. Captain Hart, wounded in battle, . . . — — Map (db m236278) HM

32 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — First District Court —

Here in the log house of Jean Baptiste Jereaume the Federal Court of the Erie District, Territory of Michigan, held its first session July 3, 1805. President Thomas Jefferson named Judge Augustus B. Woodward to preside. Beginning in 1807 the . . . — — Map (db m20909) HM

33 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — After the Battle — River Raisin Battlefield 1813 —

In the words of Laurent Durocher, "after the defeat of Winchester, many of the inhabitants fled with their families to the frontier of Ohio. Others went to Detroit. The British made several attempts to persuade the Indians to destroy what was left . . . — — Map (db m20905) HM

34 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Memorial Place —

Here were buried unidentified remains of victims of the River Raisin Massacre of 1813. In 1872 surviving veterans of that war gathered in Monroe from Ohio and Kentucky. They headed a colorful civic pageant which halted solemnly at this spot . . . — — Map (db m237960) HM

35 ► Michigan, Monroe County, Monroe — Michigan's Tribute to Kentucky —

This Monument is dedicated to the Memory of the heroes who Lost their lives in our country's defense, in the Battle and Massacre of the River Raisin, January 22nd, and 23rd, 1813. — — Map (db m20937) HM

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