HOOSIER Columbia City: During the Revolutionary War in November of 1780, French colonial officer Augustin de La Balme planned an attack on the HOSTILITY: British fort at Kekionga (Fort Wayne). La Balme’s forces, however, were overwhelmingly defeated by Little Turtle. Pershing: Battlegrounds Pershing, Indiana was originally called Fort Wayne: “Germany.” Anti-German sentiment A confederacy of Native Americans led by during World War I caused the town to Little Turtle of the Miami and Blue Jacket of adopt the name “Pershing” after the Shawnee was victorious in a series of General John Pershing, commander of battles near Kekionga (Fort Wayne) during and the Western Front in 1918. the Northwest Indian War in 1790. The losses became known as Harmar’s Defeat—named for General Josiah Harmar. It was the worst defeat of American forces by Native Heroes Logansport: Americans up to that time. During the Northwest Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkinson raided the Miami (Wea) town of Kenapacomaqua located here. Sixty warriors fought the militia force of over 500 men, and the town was destroyed. Jalapa: The Battle of Mississinewa began in December in Indiana’s during the War of 1812. William Henry Harrison ordered the destruction of Miami villages along the Battle Ground: Mississinewa River. Twelve of the American cavalry West On November 7, 1811, William were killed but many more were incapacitated from Henry Harrison led American forces frostbite. Today the location is the site of the largest War Lafayette: against Native Americans at War of 1812 reenactment in the U.S. Fort Ouiatenon was the first Prophetstown. With their military fortified European settlement leader, Tecumseh, away, the Native Windfall: in what is now Indiana—built American warriors were led by his A German prisoner-of-war camp was by the French around 1719. brother Tenskwatawa. Harrison’s located here from 1944 to 1945 during History The British captured the fort force of 1,000 men dispersed the World War II. The camp housed 1,500 in 1760, but it was recaptured warriors. The Americans burned German prisoners at its peak, and they by Native Americans during Prophetstown, destroying the worked as laborers on local farms. Pontiac’s War in 1763. The winter supplies. Prophetstown, fort exchanged hands during however, was quickly rebuilt and the American Revolution, and destroyed again in 1812. The battle General Washington ordered increased the violence in the it destroyed in 1791. A replica frontier. was built in 1930.

Kurt Vonnegut at Ball State University Indianapolis: Dana: Arsenal Technical Author Kurt Vonnegut was born This is the hometown of High School was here in 1922. Vonnegut enlisted in Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer originally built as a the U.S. Army in 1943 and was Prize-winning journalist best U.S. Civil War arsenal. captured by the Germans but known as a war The high school was survived the Allied bombing of correspondent embedded established in 1912, Dresden by taking refuge in the meat with the troops during and the campus today locker of a slaughterhouse. In 1969, World War II. includes most of the his novel Slaughterhouse-Five became original buildings, a symbol of the anti-Vietnam War including barracks and movement, and Vonnegut gained Terre Haute: a guard house. widespread acclaim. The first American land victory in the War of 1812 happened when Edinburgh: outnumbered forces led Camp Atterbury was built just after the attack on Pearl by Zachary Taylor Harbor in 1941. The convalescent hospital on the base was defended Fort Harrison the largest of its kind, and 500 barracks, six theaters, and here against a band of four gyms were constructed. The base trained 275,000 men Native Americans fighting and women soldiers during World War II. The base was for the British. also used as a prisoner of war camp, housing German, Ellettsville: Italian, and Eastern European prisoners. Indiana Bedford Aurora: limestone has been On August 24, 1781, Joseph Brant and about 100 used on notable Native Americans from local tribes ambushed buildings around the Colonel Archibald Lochry and a force of 100 country, including the militiamen fighting for the Americans against the Pentagon. In 2001, the British and their allies during the Revolutionary Bybee Stone Company War. Lochry surrendered and was killed, along here provided 2.5 with over 30 militiamen; 67 were captured. None of million pounds of the the Native Americans were killed. quarried stone to rebuild the portion of the Pentagon destroyed Vincennes: by terrorists on George Rogers Clark September 11. marched French and Underwood: American troops from The village of Pigeon Roost was attacked Kaskaskia in Illinois and by a war party of mostly Shawnee in a reached Fort Sackville here coordinated attack during the War of 1812. on February 23, 1779. The On September 3, 1812, Native Americans British surrendered the fort allied with the British killed 24 settlers in in two days, giving control the village and kidnapped two children. of the western frontier to the Americans in the Corydon: Revolutionary War. Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led an incursion into northern states during the Civil War in July of 1863. Morgan captured 355 Union militia at the Battle of Corydon before crossing northeast into Ohio.

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