Show famous forts in in U S history by ELMO SCOTT WATSON li woo union boonesborough Boones borough symbol of frontier america 13 cob 1 IB more a ill an its ken go alid tacky most at f famous us tort or it t 1 a na timed whose home wella the american frontier mid it itt panic iame tanda as ft a monument to the memory som ry or of daniel boons boone the lie ono into gre grent ill I 1 Am Ameil malcan can pioneer blie ailef if as was waa its to extrom a there are few forts I 1 in fl america have a more commil romantic t c history in 1775 col richard le a north carolina land apeLu lator sent daniel boone to survey a road into kentucky the dark and bloody ground droun tl end to buld baad fl to fort there clairs boone bet at out falth alth W 20 men am and after mal several erill with hostile 1 la more dlapa hp he r ahod ills ila g goal a at april 1 and u on april apri 1 2 28 9 began building a fort illch Bone brugh was waa typical of at all frontier forts it Is worthy of le de at each of the tour four corners carrier ans a two story etory b blockhouse b A aerie herlea of little it u cabins blue placed 11 close together with their roofs wil sloping was I 1 bialt R along the liles and the space PC 1 in between thome these cable cobins was tied filled up with Pal lumble there news heavy gate batea in rout front and back and tile the whole what tort fort I 1 in closed a space 20 feet long and ad iio felt fea wide the stalls its winch h ewas about twelve test feet high were fop or if rifle a ore no as u acre the collins cabins and it ilisie there was hardly a nail or piece of iron iran used sad in the whole tort fort aro from m the date of its establishment them was we ol 01 always something marble thrilling taking place rw in july 1778 occurred alie we capture of the boone and ad Calla flay girls and their romantic rescue soon th the next mor rear car the ind indiana attacked lacked at nail and simon kenton made his famous rescue of daniel boone bonne in september of that year the british find and indians indiana again be delfind staged the fort after they had bad batted out the frontiersmen for far a council and their free treacherous bemus at attack ack under the white whit flag had failed duties during this stage siege the indians tried to get into the fort by digging under it want are you yen red it rascals doing there them on one old 16 frontiersman yelled to the marli gnew 1 tn their own tongue digging dinging Di nging was waa the re return turn ye yell 11 I 1 blow you all to the dev devil ma abon on you van do oho oh was the cheerful reply ply were we re digging to meet yon yen and intend to bury or you such were aon the incidents which make up the tha history of Boones barough after the tell ind an one were wave over tills this P pioneer met I 1 its importance and borer became the th P of the billue of hen kentucky tucky as it on once cc promised to do taday Bommel oom 1 la noted led a aa a pleasure resort wa where ere hundreds go every year to play piny wt a strange coo con trust treat to the grim scenes access of savage ha be artil and bloodshed it witnessed in the days of daniel boone it kept the northwest under our flag one rebr february uary day in 1779 the brit ish flag was limited down from above F fort rt on an the well wabash sh river in R 6 19 rogers roger clark had bad won the old awo I 1 tor for the on united ted states one due august day 1 in 1813 int an army we g under the ar Y azacl au acl banner against fort re rt stephenson on the h sandusky river rl er in ohio ahlo reeled hick lw ck in defeat before ill the fire of 0 ita to garr garrison lion of it kentucky rill linen george cragbon a nephew of gr george roger chu k hud and 0 lived the old north west for the united state tort fort step heimon birtsy del deserved deser vea the name nine of fort at nil 11 it a has only a blockade it b built nt at tile the hed head of time favl ethl er gation gallon ori on alie S liver but it was we portent because b a it ft commanded the tha approach to lo tu 10 IP I important P nant bases of supplies applies for far s x army in the atar or of 1812 when general proctor with COO british regulars regular accompanied by 3 india indians under order tecumseh appeared I 1 in northern ohio gen henry harrison Harr laon ordered capt george C crog as ban to mili evacuate cuate this vast post but crog craig h ban believed I 1 that with alth hta him force far a of wel 1 men he could b hold old it against sea ast proc to tor old and hla his wee nce was shared by him hia six air outi fui on aft ermis none of tile them in in more ore than twenty one wale years of age horrison reluctantly go gave hit his v pei mission for the attempt to be made add and croghan bet act to work to strengthen the old fort ns is much as possible he bud bad only one piece of artillery R 1 little attl e at six which tile the me aal aol adler it i r affectionately f re ortona tely twilled called old besa beas etiola and ad when waz proctor broco appeared ap pp r before th the a fort with a force of 1200 1 aw indians indiana and regulars and anine owe heavy artillery a a n asmal defense seemie ho hope leai but t crogham Cro glian refused proctors procter sum conaw mons to surrender is and was not net 1 even I frightened fight ened at ahe briton a throat that but he might not met be able t to control a at t him indians if ile he lind had to storm the tort fact after bombarding the rort fort sit all night proctor sent bent a storming party of into men against ahe it twill bialla and although Cro glian a men met the at hickers atto cherr iab with a its deadly adly rifle ore they co cam on an bravely brove 1 lust just a they sprang into the be ditch surrounding I 1 dag tile tha fort fact a asked par porthole t note we was thrown up open 1 in one me of tha blockhouses blockhouse and it old be kesa poured pound out a evitable eri table blust bleat of clean benth upon an the llie that proved the tha 4 de times tiding ittel stroke in ill it the battle proctor awl adoni tz retreated precipitately alie american supply depota were moved ohio was waa appy im pat h pared r 4 the III of aa Invie fort by the indians indian old and historians geme generally rully agree that the successful defense of bon b on roved moved the |