Grenze Kämpfe & Kämpfern; Geschichten der Pioniere zwischen den Alleghanies und dem Mississippi und in der texanischen Republik. Duncan, und Edmund Shipp; alle SeventeenthRegulars außer sanftmütig, der dem Neunten gehörte. Mit ihnen ging Lieutenant Anderson, die, nachdem Sie nocommand, tapfer als Freiwilliger in den Reihen serviert. Fort Stephenson war eine marode alte Einfriedung, builtaround Eine ehemalige indische Händler Haus am Kopf der nav-igation auf der Sandusky River, etwa zwanzig Meilen vom Lake Erie shore, in, was jetzt Sandusky County, Ohio. Der Ort war manchmal als untere Sandusky, und die Fledermaus

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Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . Duncan, and Edmund Shipp; all of the SeventeenthRegulars except Meek, who belonged to the Ninth.With them went Lieutenant Anderson, who, having nocommand, served valiantly as a volunteer in the ranks. Fort Stephenson was a ramshackle old stockade, builtaround a former Indian traders house at the head of nav-igation on the Sandusky River, about twenty miles fromthe Lake Erie shore, in what is now Sandusky County, Ohio. The place was sometimes called Lower Sandusky, and the battle is frequently referred to as the defence ofLower Sandusky. The stockade, which was not in par-ticularly good repair, was made of piles sixteen feet high, and surrounding them was a dry ditch about eight or ninefeet wide, and five or six feet deep. The fort, enclosing 294 Border Fights and Fighters about an acre of ground, was laid out in the form of a par-allelogram, with a blockhouse at the northeast corner anda guardhouse at the southeast. To supplement theseCroghan had erected another blockhouse midway on the. Map of Fort Stephenson. north wall, from which he could enfilade the ditch. Healso strengthened the palisade, and put it in as good astate of repair as possible. The place had not been designed as a fort. Originallyit had only been intended as a defence against Indians. The Defence of Fort Stephenson 295 It was situated on low ground near the river, commandedby surrounding hills, and was untenable in the face of ar-tillery. It was a depot of supplies of some importance, although the great depot for Ohio was at Upper San-dusky, some twenty miles up the river. There was also athird depot and much valuable government material atErie, where Perry had been busily engaged in buildingand outfitting his famous squadron. Fort Stephenson, therefore, was an outpost which stood between the twogreat depots in which were stored the provisions and mu-nitions of war for all the Ameri

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1900
• booksubjectindians
• bookyear1902