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Hardcover Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago Book

ISBN: 0226428966

ISBN13: 9780226428963

Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

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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. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald's party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner;...

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