To Your Posts! - Nelson, Larry L
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Using numerous primary sources, including letters, diaries, and other documents from the period To Your Posts! tells the story of Fort Meigs through the voices of those who served at the post during the War of 1812. Built at the foot of the Maumee River Rapids, the site of present-day Perrysburg in Wood County, the post withstood two determined sieges by allied British, Canadian, and Native forces later that year. Those victories, resulting in the garrison's continued American occupation throughout 1815, contributed significantly to the United States' eventual successes in the Detroit Theater at the end of the war.…mehr

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Using numerous primary sources, including letters, diaries, and other documents from the period To Your Posts! tells the story of Fort Meigs through the voices of those who served at the post during the War of 1812. Built at the foot of the Maumee River Rapids, the site of present-day Perrysburg in Wood County, the post withstood two determined sieges by allied British, Canadian, and Native forces later that year. Those victories, resulting in the garrison's continued American occupation throughout 1815, contributed significantly to the United States' eventual successes in the Detroit Theater at the end of the war.
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Larry L. Nelson holds a PhD in American history from Bowling Green State University. He worked for the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) as site director at Fort Meigs Historic Site from 1980 until 2004. Following his retirement, he joined the history faculty at BGSU as an assistant professor. From 2008 until 2015, he was editor for the journal Northwest Ohio History. An authority on Ohio's frontier and early statehood eras, he is the author of A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799, and A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians, and co-editor (with David C. Skaggs) of The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814.