Fort Miamis

British troops constructed Fort Miamis on the banks of the Maumee River between April and August of 1794 with the help of local American Indians. The fort featured four bastions, a river battery, barracks, officers' quarters, supply buildings, and a number of shops. The outpost housed over 130 British troops who manned 14 cannons protecting it from all directions. Hostile troops approaching by land faced an abatis, a 25-foot-deep trench lined with rows of 12-inch-thick stakes. Archaeological excavations in 1982 unearthed nails, wall timbers, bottle fragments, regimental buttons, and other artifacts, and all that remains today are the earthwork trenches dug around the fort in 1794.

Maumee, Ohio · United States