Fort Miami (Ohio)
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Fort Miami was a British fort built in spring 1794 on the Maumee River in what was at the time territory claimed by the United States, and designated by the federal government as the Northwest Territo
Earthworks at the site
Fort Miami, looking toward Fort Meigs, Maumee, Ohio
Fort Miami on the Maumee River above Toledo, Ohio
Fort Miami, Maumee, Ohio
Jay Treaty
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The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the
Fort Miami (Ohio)
…The Treaty of Greenville opened most of the present State of Ohio and part of Indiana to United States settlement. In 1796, under the terms of the Jay Treaty (1794), the British abandoned Fort Miami – along with their other forts on American soil. Wayne occupied and garrisoned it, but about 1799 it was…
First page of the Jay Treaty
Portrait of John Jay by Gilbert Stuart, 1794. Jay was chief American negotiator
Thomas Jefferson was harshly critical of the treaty.