Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
Today we are here in fort meigs Historic Site in ohio. Fort meigs was constructed in the winter and early spring of 1813. Acres. Est encloses 10 even today, it is the largest wooden wall fort in america. The purpose of this fort and for its size specifically was that detroit has fallen to the british and the entire army of the northwest had been surrendered. Everything north of the river just over here is under british control. A new man named will a new man named general William Henry harrison was put in charge and his idea was to build a large fortification right at the rapids of the river, so the most shallow crossing point, and his plan was to get as many troops and supplies together as possible. He was going to get back up to detroit, retake that for the United States and then invade canada. The war of 1812 tends to be quite a bit forgotten in our American History. At the timeng on was the United States was a young nation and we had just gotten over the revolution. We were our own