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    The Battle of Fort Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans...
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    honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War. The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort Dearborn during the War of 1812...
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    of 1812. In later life, his criticism of General Israel Putnam's performance at the Battle of Bunker Hill caused a major controversy. Fort Dearborn in...
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  • Nathan Heald (category United States Army personnel of the War of 1812)
    during the War of 1812. He was in command of Fort Dearborn in Chicago during the Battle of Fort Dearborn. Heald was a captain stationed in Fort Wayne, Indiana...
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    William Wells (soldier) (category Military personnel from Fort Wayne, Indiana)
    they had marched south from the fort, a massacre known as the Battle of Fort Dearborn. Nathan and Rebekah Heald were both wounded, taken into captivity...
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    warrior in the Battle of Fort Dearborn. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Pesotum has a total area of 0.58 square miles (1.50 km2), of which 0.57...
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    life of Margaret Helm, the wife of a U.S. army officer, during the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812. The Fort Dearborn Massacre Monument is not to be confused...
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  • Battle of Fort Dearborn Battle of Sugar Point Battle of Wild Cat Creek Frog Lake Massacre Arauco War Battle of Catirai Battle of Curalaba Battle of Las...
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    "Fort Dearborn". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved August 1, 2008. Ann Durkin Keating, Rising Up from Indian Country: the battle of Fort Dearborn...
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    Prairie Avenue District (category National Register of Historic Places in Chicago)
    South Indiana, and 211-217 East Cullerton. It was the site of the Battle of Fort Dearborn and became the city's most fashionable residential district...
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  • depredations, not only of public but private property, committed by them in Canada". Chauncey and Dearborn subsequently won the Battle of Fort George on the Niagara...
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  • James V. Ball) en route to Fort Stephenson. Battle of Fort Stephenson, Ohio (August 2, 1813): British fail to capture Fort Stephenson on the Sandusky...
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    Alexander Robinson (chief) (category History of Chicago)
    Justice of the Peace. Chevalier was the granddaughter of the Potawatomi warrier Naunongee (who died in the Battle of Fort Dearborn), specifically of his daughter...
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  • during the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812, although her father died in the battle. After the battle, the Ouilmettes hid Margaret Helm, the wife of a lieutenant...
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    although the muster lists are known to be incomplete. Battle of Fort Dearborn Battle of Africa Point Battle of Rock Island Rapids Black Partridge Chief Comas...
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    Black Partridge (chief) (category Chiefs of the Potawatomi)
    protect settlers during the Battle of Fort Dearborn after they were unsuccessful in preventing the attack. A memorial at the site of the massacre in present-day...
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    Sixty Years' War (category History of the Midwestern United States)
    multiple battles against the United States, including the Battle of Fort Dearborn (near the site of present-day Chicago) and the sieges of Detroit and...
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    John H. Kinzie (category Mayors of Chicago)
    old. The Kinzie family moved to Detroit, Michigan following the Battle of Fort Dearborn, living there for several years. However, the family returned to...
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  • Big Foot (Potawatomi leader) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    Wisconsin. Big Foot likely led his band in the Battle of Fort Dearborn in Chicago, part of the War of 1812, in which a Potawatomi war band killed 38 American...
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    Treaty of Greenville. In 1803, the U.S. Army constructed Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed during the War of 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn by the...
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    first graduate of West Point to be killed in combat, died in this ambush. The incident is referred to as the Battle of Fort Dearborn. A Potawatomi chief...
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    -79.061111 The Battle of Fort George was fought during the War of 1812, in which the Americans defeated a British force and captured Fort George in Upper...
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    1812. Other coordinated attacks occurred at Fort Dearborn, Fort Harrison, Pigeon Roost, and Fort Madison. Fort Wayne was established in 1794 by United States...
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    Legion and led Wayne's intelligence detachment, later led relief at Battle of Fort Dearborn Lieutenant John Whistler, an officer who had served with the British...
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  • Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-06. "HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY:NEW EVIDENCE OF THE 1730 MESQUAKIE (RENARD, FOX) FORT". Parkland College. Retrieved 2018-06-24....
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    George Ronan (category United States Army personnel of the War of 1812)
    Fort Dearborn, a frontier post at the mouth of the Chicago River. Just over one year later Ronan was killed in combat in the Battle of Fort Dearborn....
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    expansion. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15, 1812, the only known armed conflict in Chicago. This battle convinced the American government...
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    under the command of Wellington enters Madrid, following the Battle of Salamanca. August 15 – War of 1812 – Battle of Fort Dearborn: Potawatomi warriors...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Members of the Kinzie family, particularly her mother-in-law (Eleanor Lytle Kinzie) and sister-in-law, told Juliette about the Battle of Fort Dearborn at Chicago...
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