Fort Ouiatenon, built in 1717, was the first fortified European settlement in what is now Indiana, United States. It was a palisade stockade with log blockhouse...
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Ouiatenon (Miami-Illinois: waayaahtanonki) was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans. The name Ouiatenon, also variously given...
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held on a weekend in October since 1968, at the present-day site of Fort Ouiatenon, a replica 18th century French military and trading post near West Lafayette...
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Leonard Helm (section Fort Nelson and death)
far as Fort Ouiatenon. Vincennes decided to support the Americans at the urging of Father Gibault, and Captain Helm was sent to command Fort Sackville(renamed...
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Fort Knox, abandoned Fort Wayne, open to the public Fort Ouiatenon, destroyed during the Northwest Indian War Fort Atkinson, open to the public Fort Atkinson...
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French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565) Vincennes and Fort Ouiatenon in Indiana French Louisiana Louisiana (New France) (1672–1764) Present-day...
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Miami people (section Forts)
rivers, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1720–49 Portage of the Miami River, St. Joseph and Kankakee rivers unknown – 1733 Tepicon of the Wabash, Fort Ouiatenon, Lafayette...
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Sieur de Vincennes built Fort Miami at Kekionga, now Fort Wayne. In 1717, another Canadian, Picote de Beletre, built Fort Ouiatenon on the Wabash River, to...
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established a large settlement called Ouiatenon, near what is now Lafayette, and the French colonists established Fort Ouiatenon, which facilitated trade with...
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Pontiac's War (section Siege of Fort Detroit)
British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements. Nine forts were destroyed, and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured...
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explorers arrived in the 1670s and the first permanent settlement was Fort Ouiatenon by the French established in 1717. Lafayette was platted in 1825 and...
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Fort de Chartres Fort Dearborn Fort Johnson Fort Kaskaskia Fort Massac Fort Benjamin Harrison Fort Sackville Fort Knox Fort Miami Fort Ouiatenon Fort...
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The Wabash Heritage Trail is a hiking trail running from Fort Ouiatenon to the Tippecanoe Battlefield Park in Battle Ground, Indiana. It is approximately...
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May 1722, Vincennes was commissioned an ensign and took control of Fort Ouiatenon near present-day Lafayette, Indiana. He was promoted to the rank of...
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the first years of the settlement, was decreed in 1745 to run between Fort Ouiatenon (below the site of modern-day Lafayette, Indiana) and Vincennes. In...
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Sieur de Vincennes built Fort Miami at Kekionga, now Fort Wayne. In 1717, another Canadian, Picote de Beletre, built Fort Ouiatenon on the Wabash River, to...
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the city. Purdue University Purdue University Horticulture Gardens Fort Ouiatenon, an early French trading post Purdue State Bank, 1914 bank building...
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Saint-Joseph (1691), Fort Michilimackinac (1715), Fort Miami (1715), Fort La Baye (1717), Fort Ouiatenon (1717), Fort Chagouamigon (1718), and Fort Beauharnois...
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French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565) Vincennes and Fort Ouiatenon in Indiana French Louisiana (23.3% of the current U.S. territory) (1801–1804)...
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British-held Fort Detroit, other tribes in Indiana rose up against the British, who were forced to surrender Fort Miamis and Fort Ouiatenon. In 1763, while...
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of forts in the area, such as Fort de Chartres, Fort Crevecoeur, Fort Saint Louis, Fort Ouiatenon, Fort Miami (Michigan), Fort Miami (Indiana), Fort Saint...
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This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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Miami Native Americans known as the Ouiatenon or Weas. In 1717, the French government established Fort Ouiatenon across the Wabash River and three miles...
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of Fort Sackville February 20 – 25, 1779. Signing of the Treaty of Greenville, August 3, 1795. Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811 Siege of Fort Harrison...
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Treaty of Greenville (redirect from Treaty of Fort Greenville)
Fort Dearborn (now Downtown Chicago) on Lake Michigan. Other American lands within Indian Country included Fort Detroit, Ouiatenon, Fort Wayne, Fort Miami...
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Historic District, Indiana Historical Bureau, n.d. Accessed 2012-03-14. Fort Ouiatenon, Indiana Historical Bureau, n.d. Accessed 2012-03-14. Ninth Street Hill...
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1702–1760 Fort Michilimackinac 1715–1780 Fort Michipicoton 1725–1904 Fort Nashwaak 1692–1700 Fort Niagara 1726– Fort Ouiatenon 1717–1791 Fort Paskoya 1741–...
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over the counsel of two Kickapoo chiefs who warned Morris away from Fort Ouiatenon (near modern West Lafayette). Morris, as he recorded in his Journal...
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Fort Wayne. The new diocese had 54 parishes and an approximate population of 31,700 Catholics. In 1945, the pope named Reverend John Bennett of Fort Wayne...
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Seminole. Ouiatenon (Miami-Illinois: waayaahtanonki) was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans? (See Wea below) Fort Ouiatenon is...
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