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Van Horne, Thomas B.
Military officer; conspicuous in the War of 1812-15.
In August, 1812, Governor Meigs sent Captain Brush with men, cattle, provisions, and a mail for Hull's army.
At the Raisin River, Brush sent word to Hull that he had information that a body of Indians under Tecumseh was lying in wait for him near Brownstown, at the mouth of the Huron River, 25 miles below Detroit, and he asked the general to send down a detachment of soldiers as an escort.
Hull ordered Major Van Home, of Colonel Findlay's regiment, with 200 men, to join Brush, and escort him and his treasures to headquarters.
The major crossed the Detroit from Hull's forces in Canada, Aug. 4.
On the morning of the
Thomas B. Van Horne. 5th, while the detachment was moving cautiously, Van Horne was told by a Frenchman that several hundred Indians lay in ambush near Brownstown.
Accustomed to alarmists, he did not believe the story, and pushed forward his men in two columns, when they were fired upon fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wayne , Fort, attack on (search)
Wayne, Fort, attack on
Forts Wayne and Harrison, the former at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, where they formed the Maumee, and the latter on the Wabash, were strongholds of the Americans in the Northwest in 1812. General Proctor, in command at Fort Maiden, resolved to reduce them, with the assistance of Tecumseh, whom Brock had commissioned a brigadier-general.
Major Muir, with British regulars and Indians, was to proceed up the Maumee Valley to co-operate with other Indians, and Sept. 1 was appointed as the day when they should invest Fort Wayne.
The garrison consisted of only seventy men under Capt. James Rhea.
The Indians prosecuted raids in other directions to divert attention from Forts Wayne and Harrison and prevent their being reinforced.
A scalping-party fell upon the Pigeon-roost settlement
Map of Fort Wayne and vicinity. in Scott county, Ind. (Sept. 3), and during the twilight they killed three men, five women, and sixteen children.
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