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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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