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Bookmark or Share- Fort Dearborn - WikipediaFort Dearborn was a United States fort, first built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed by U.S. troops under Captain John Whistler and named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War.
- Battle of Fort Dearborn - WikipediaThe Battle of Fort Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois (at that time, part of the Illinois Territory).
- The True Story of the Deadly Encounter at Fort DearbornFor nearly two centuries, the events that transpired in Chicago on August 15, 1812, had been known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre. With the dedication of a new park, the bloody encounter between...
- Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the ...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. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children.
- Fort Dearborn - Encyclopedia of ChicagoBy 1808 the fort rose on a small hill of the south bank of the Chicago River, which wrapped along the Lake Michigan shoreline instead of emptying directly into the lake as it does today. The American soldiers and their families lived within the palisaded fort.
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