Fallen Timbers Travel Plaza Traditional Cache
Handyman & Fam: I don't know if they ever plan to rebuild these service plazas. I'm not going to wait years to find out if they do. It was a good run!
Fallen Timbers Travel Plaza
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When looking for this cache, you are 2.04 miles from the disputed
oldest cache in the state of Ohio. Ancient Lake (GC2DBE) was placed
on 1/23/01. For more information on the dispute, please visit
NovaNikki (GC3EF). The first official GEOCACHE placed in NW Ohio.
The Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794, has been called the
“last battle of the American Revolution” and one of the
three most important battles in the development of our nation. The
decisive victory by the Legion of the United States over a
confederacy of Indian tribes opened the Northwest Territory, a
five-state region unceded by the native inhabitants, for westward
expansion and led to Ohio’s statehood in 1803!
The battle took place amid trees toppled by a tornado just north of
the Maumee River in the present-day city of Maumee.
The legion was commanded by General “Mad” Anthony
Wayne, a veteran of Valley Forge handpicked by President Washington
to oversee the new nation’s first professional army.
Wayne’s force, made up of 1,600 to 1,700
“regulars” and 1,500 members of the Kentucky Militia,
marched north from Cincinnati to build a series of forts between
the Ohio and Maumee rivers. Among Wayne’s officers was
21-year-old General William Henry Harrison, who would become the
ninth president of the United States.
Waiting for Wayne and his men were about 1,000 warriors
representing the native confederacy and led by Miami war chief
Little Turtle, an old nemesis of the United States. Other leaders
of the confederacy included Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket and Delaware
Chief Buckongahelas. One of the most famous leaders of the native
resistance, Tecumseh, also took part in the battle.
Fewer than 100 men on each side died in the brief battle, but the
Legion’s victory marked a major turning point in the battle
for the western frontier. The victory led to the signing the Treaty
Greenville in 1795. Without the treaty, portions of Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin might have remained a buffer zone
between Indian and settled territory, or even become part of
British-controlled Canada.
Congrats to Mighty Mo for the FTF
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