Fort Defiance

Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail

Wayne • Harrison

Winchester • Clay

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1780 • Marches • 1813

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Fort

Defiance

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Street and South Clinton Street (Ohio Route 66), on the right when traveling west on Fort Street.

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Fort Defiance Flagstaff

Fort Defiance Flagstaff

All land north to Canada is surveyed on baseline running from this point.

Marker is at the intersection of Fort Street and Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Fort Street.

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Fort Defiance

Fort Defiance was erected upon this site by General Wayne August 9-17, 1794 and thus "The Grand Emporium of the hostile Indians of the west was gained without loss of blood."

From this point General Wayne advanced against the Indians ...

Fort Defiance

Anthony Wayne Parkway

The arrival of the Legion of the United States at this point on August 8, 1794 marked the end of General Anthony Wayne's difficult march, through swamps and forests, from Fort GreeneVille. On this site, in the ...

Fort Defiance, 1794

Here in 1794 General Anthony Wayne built Fort Defiance during the Indian Wars prior to the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Fort Winchester was built south of here during the War of 1812.

Down river from here is Preston Island, former site of ...

Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Defiance

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . a perfect mousetrap.”

- Col. Alexander Scammell,

September 21, 1777

From here are seen nearly all the powerful forces of nature that made this spot on Lake Champlain the Gibraltar of the North ...

Site of Fort Defiance

1794

Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.

Marker is at the intersection of South Jefferson Street and East Hancock Street (Georgia Route 22/24), in the median on South Jefferson Street.

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Site of Fort Defiance

About one eighth mile south east on Elk River, American forces here and at Fort Hollingsworth (Elk Landing) repulsed the British under Admiral Cockburn in their attempt to capture Elkton, April 29, 1813.

Marker is on Old Field Point Road 0.1 ...