Battle of Fort Dearborn
Videos
The Battle of Fort Dearborn was an engagement between United States troops, militia and Miami native auxiliaries, against Potawatomi Native Americans that took place on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dear
The Battle of Fort Dearborn is commemorated on the site of Fort Dearborn with Defense a 1928 sculpture by Henry Hering that adorns the southeastern tender's house of the DuSable Bridge
William Hull
William Wells
1884 drawing of the tree said to have marked the site of the start of the battle
Potawatomi
Videos
The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie, are an Indigenous North American tribe of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak
Battle of Fort Dearborn
…Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops, militia and Miami native auxiliaries, against Potawatomi Native Americans that took place on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn, then part of Illinois Territory in the Chicago area. The battle, part of the…
Regalia at the Field Museum in Chicago
Shabbona
Metea lithograph (1842)
Leopold Pokagon