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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL and rare newspaper, the War (NY) , a newspaper which was issued specifically to cover the WAR of 1812. Prominent back page headline: "Defence of Fort Harrison" and 2+ columns of detailed coverage of the FIRST American LAND VICTORY in the War of 1812. This was the BATTLE of FORT HARRISON . The Battle of Fort Harrison was a seige that lasted from 4 September – 15 September 1812 . The first American land victory during the War of 1812 , it was won by an outnumbered United States force garrisoned inside the fort against a combined Native American force near modern Terre Haute, Indiana . In 1811, while General William Henry Harrison marched his army north to meet the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe , the army encamped on the high grounds of Terre Haute and constructed a fort overlooking the Wabash River . Harrison had long advocated building a fort in the strategic location. The fort protected the army's supply lines, as well as the capital of the Indiana Territory downstream in Vincennes . The site, located in present-day Vigo County, Indiana at the northern edge of Terre Haute , was only two miles from the Wea village of Weauteno . It was said to be the location of a historic battle involving the Illiniwek , and was initially called Camp Bataille des Illinois . Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess proposed that the stockade be named Fort Harrison in General Harrison's honor. The fort was finished 28 October 1811, and had a 150 feet (46 m) stockade encircling the post. Leaving the fort and a small garrison under Colonel James Miller , Harrison led his army to the Tippecanoe battleground, w it confronted an army led by the Shawnee prophet, Tenskwatawa . When the army returned, Harrison left Captain Josiah Snelling in command of Fort Harrison, in reward for his performance at Tippecanoe. Snelling served as commandant of the fort from 11 November 1811 until May 1812. During that Winter, the fort was shaken by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake . Snelling was later transferred to Fort Detroit . After the outbreak of the War of 1812 , Captain Zachary Taylor , future President of the United States , was ordered by Harrison to leave Fort Knox and assume command of Fort Harrison. The United States had suffered a series of defeats immediately after war was declared, at the hands of the British, Canadians and Indians. These victories helped motivate other native tribes to take up campaigns against remote American outposts. Battle of Fort HarrisonOn 3 September 1812, a band of Miami arrived and warned Captain Taylor that they would soon be attacked by a large force of Native Americans. That evening, shots were heard, but Taylor was hesitant to send a scout party. He only had 50 men in his garrison, and sickness had reduced the number of effective soldiers to only 15. In the morning, a party was dispatched and discovered the bodies of two white settlers, the Doyle brothers. The brothers were buried, and the party reported back to Fort Harrison. Captain Taylor, with his 15 able soldiers and about 5 healthy settlers, made ready for the expected attack. Each of the 20 men was issued sixteen rounds to fire. That day, 4 September , a force of 600 Potawatomi (under Chief Pa-koi-shee-can), Wea (under War Chief Stone Eater ), Shawnee , Kickapoo and Winnebago warriors approached Fort Harrison. A party of 40 men under command of Kickapoo Chief Namahtoha approached under a flag of truce and asked to parley with Taylor the next morning. Taylor agreed, and the Indian force retreated to camp for the night. That night, a warrior crawled up and set the blockhouse on fire. When the sentries opened fire on the arsonist, the 600-strong Indian war party attacked the West side of the fort. Taylor ordered the fort's surgeon and a han...
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