DIGIRENT - Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Ann Durkin Keating
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Chicago was started in 1804 when the US Government authorized the building of a fort south of the Chicago River and near Lake Michigan. (There is a statue on the northwest corner of Michigan and Wacker just south of the Mich||
“[O]pens up a fascinating vista of lost American history. . . . It's a great story, and Ms. Keating's neutral, unemphatic prose makes it register all the more clearly.”
In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest ...
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