Fort Harrison Supply Train Ambushed: War of 1812 in Indiana
They'd already lost the first supply convoy. The second one, sent to relieve the besieged garrison at Fort Harrison on September 14, 1812, was ambushed at a narrow river passage — likely by Miami and Potawatomi warriors — and turned back without reaching the fort. The fort itself had been attacked just weeks earlier, and a teenage Captain Zachary Taylor had held it with about 50 men. That defense launched Taylor's career. The ambushed convoy that didn't make it is the footnote. The man it was trying to supply became the 12th President of the United States.
September 15, 1812
214 years ago
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