A Strategic Location

A Strategic Location (HM1GIJ)

Location: Waterville, OH 43566 Lucas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 41° 34.328', W 83° 37.568'

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The British constructed Fort Miamis at the foot of the Maumee River rapids to challenge U.S. General Anthony Wayne and his Legionnaires marching through the Ohio country in 1794.



Besides preventing a U.S. advance on British-controlled Detroit, the fort was strategically located to control the waterway to the south, allow reinforcements and supplies to arrive by river from the north, and embolden the American Indian confederacy's resistance to American settlers.



After the Battle of Fallen Timbers in August 1794, the British continued to occupy Fort Miamis until peaceably handing it over to the Americans in July 1796 as a result of the Jay Treaty. Americans then occupied the fort until abandoning it in 1798. British troops reoccupied the Fort Miamis site in 1813 when they were battling American forces at Fort Meigs, a large U.S. supply depot about two miles upriver.
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Date Added Sunday, September 14th, 2014 at 3:57am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 281049 N 4605603
Decimal Degrees41.57213333, -83.62613333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 41° 34.328', W 83° 37.568'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds41° 34' 19.68" N, 83° 37' 34.08" W
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Area Code(s)419, 567
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 661 Michigan Ave, Waterville OH 43566, US
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