| Show A auto Frank Fank It Is IR noteworthy that the reputation of our grot groat soldiers was I In every cas case bui built up ot of a a well al as brilliant service In no O Case hl has It been tim th re reul suit ul ot of 40 any single lingle de deed however heroic In root act others other hl have performed engle of heroism In bill haney any an single deed de of In Inor any or 0 thee these gret great soldiers In such Cle cases ni as a rule thee these heroes are arc known only to time the reader ot of abstruse history A sIngle Ingle instance will curve tl to Illustrate I Just where the tho town In Ohio wiling time thc minnie of the first frs candidate for the presidency 10 and the home ot of n a moro more successful subsequent for tor that high olee office Is 18 nw now was a wretched stockade ol Fot Fort stephenson It its armament con consisted ot of ono OM gun un and a garrison o of 10 men commanded nde by Major Gere Croghan n a young oung ot of 10 lie was 1 born not far tron from Louisville Kentucky In 1701 md caine ot of lighting stok stock for or his father tather had been un an officer In the Continental army and hi his moth mother er Was n a sister lister of George lingers Clark Graduating from fromn Wilam William and Mary Clee In 1810 he entered the he army wan 8 In the bate battle of Tippecanoe In Ul and a year later Inter was made captain In Inthe inthe the Seventeenth Infantry With this rank he hp served under tinder harrison In I Ian an and end and e so distinguished I In n a sortie from Port Fort Meigs that he wa ass I appointed nn with the ap rank ronk ot of major and nd n assigned t to the de defence fence of Fort Stephenson Lt Te To h and the Indians IndIan who isho were corn com cm lag across country rem l Fort should IRke a fank flank atack attack I on haL had authorized Cr han to bur burn the fot feet and retreat thus he dl not t do doWe doWe We are to maintain this plies ho he sold mind by hlen heaven we 11 Harrison thereupon tn an cuber to relieve him nut But Croghan nent fent to headquarters carried his p point and when on August 1st th the English commander summoned him to den der sent bark a Flout clout defiance The next day th he bombardment began and towar afternoon an assault was or ordered dere dered The soldiers In thre three or of on one hundred anti and men ech each were to attack three sides TIle Tue Indians Wen were to storm the fourth but a as they came out of the wod Into the th On open R a sited and fre firS fr from the fort drove them back back The British troops thu thug Ift left to fight aone alone Cn on n tot to the very Of gates mitts rort In t Jet get Ino into th the tort fort for two nn and then re retreated treated with Ith at al or of the officers officer and In one fifth of the omen men lUel or The Th wave ot of relied over oer the country I ne the mt result of this victory equalled anything ot of time 1111 kimi IN seen In or our day but who tOay today knows anything of the personal lr It f Maj Majar |
