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, 400 tons, built at Pittsburg, descends the Ohio to New Orleans in fourteen days......1811 War with England declared; three regiments raised in Ohio......1812 Columbus laid out......1812 Col. Israel Putnam, one of the pioneers of the State, and a son of Gen. Israel Putnam, dies at Belpre......1812 Solomon Spaulding writes a work of fiction, The manuscript found, at Salem, which afterwards furnishes the basis of the Mormon Bible......1812 General Harrison builds Fort Meigs, Wood county......February, 1813 General Harrison defends this fort against the combined attack of 2,800 British and Indians under General Proctor and the Indian chief Tecumseh......May 1-8, 1813 Fort Meigs again besieged by about 4,000 British and Indians under the same commanders without success......July 21, 1813 Fort Stephenson held by Maj. George Croghan, with 150 men against 1,300 British and Indians......Aug. 2, 1813 Judge John C. Symms, one of the first settlers of Cincinnati, dies