Talk:Fort Meigs

Strategic location of the fort

 * Slightly upstream on the Maumee are rapids. Since the British soldiers came by boat via Lake Erie and up the Maumee River from Ft. Malden in Canada- a distance of fifty miles, the rapids near Fort Meigs provided a 'choke point' which would slow up the enemy. The British battery was located near Broadway and Conant Streets in the present city of Maumee. About 1/4 mile northeast the British dug three Barbette enclosures, in which they utilized mortars to shell Fort Meigs. The remains of these enclosures can still be seen today. They are in Fort Meigs Cemetery.


 * The British had previously built another fort on the opposite bank of the Maumee, about a mile and a half downstream, known today as Fort Miamis. It originally had a garrison that mustered troops to the "Battle of Fallen Timbers" which occurred on August 20, 1794. Fort Miamis was never reconstructed. Today all that remains of it are the revetments. Today the place is a municipal park for the city of Maumee.

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Although not used in the caption, the description for the photograph has a serious error. The uniform shown has no "facings", which were eliminated in 1810 in favor of a front closure with two rows of nonfunctional buttons joined by white lace binding. Regulations issued in February 1812 prescribed a blue 10-button "coatee" with a red collar and cuffs (the red shown in the photo is of the collar and cuffs), with a binding lace of white for infantry and yellow for artillery. The uniform shown is an artillery uniform, but denoted by its yellow bindings. At the time of the Fort Meigs siege, the regulations were rewritten (but not in time to affect the outfitting of Harrison's army), eliminating the binding altogether except for the collars, and this uniform lasted for ten years. Branch colors of blue for infantry and red for artillery did not become regulation until 1851.--Reedmalloy (talk) 02:11, 22 May 2012 (UTC)