Fort Meigs

American  

noun

1. a former fort in NW Ohio: unsuccessfully attacked by the British in 1813.

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Example Sentences

When Tecumseh reached again the British camp in Canada, he found the American army at fort Meigs.

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Fort Meigs was erected on the Maumee, just above where it debouches into Lake Erie.

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But while these vast expenditures were made for the northern army, and Harrison was gradually concentrating his troops at Fort Meigs, and Perry building his little fleet on Lake Erie, soon to send up a shout that should shake the land, and while the murmuring of the savage hordes, that stretched from Mackinaw to the Gulf of Mexico, foretold a bloody day approaching, an ominous cloud was gathering over the Atlantic sea-coast.

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By the following May, Oshkosh, now in his nineteenth year, and prominent among the young warriors, went out with Souligny and Tomah, and joined Tecumseh in the siege of Fort Meigs at the rapids of the Maumee River.

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The disaster to Winchester caused Harrison to fall back to Fort Meigs, which stood near the site of the present town of Defiance.

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