Fort Sandusky

Fort Sandusky

Fort Sandusky was a small British fort in the Ohio Country, on the shore of Lake Erie in present-day Ohio, which was captured and destroyed by American Indians during Pontiac's Rebellion.

Most fighting in the French and Indian War in North America ended by 1760, and the victorious British began to take possession of forts in the Ohio Country and Great Lakes region previously occupied by the French. Although the 1758 Treaty of Easton with Ohio Country Indians promised that no additional forts would be built, in 1761 British General Jeffrey Amherst ordered the erection of Fort Sandusky on Sandusky Bay in order to link Fort Detroit with Fort Pitt. The Sandusky Bay area had long been an important trade area. There were a number of Native American villages in the area, primarily Wyandots. Orontony, a Wyandot chief, had settled here in the 1740s, and emerged as a leader. Before the French and Indian War, French and British traders competed for influence among the Indians here.

The exact location of Fort Sandusky has been variously given as being in present Ottawa County, Sandusky County, and Erie County. It may have been located along the Sandusky River. It was not on the same site as an earlier French fort/trading post, Fort Sandoské (or Sandoski) (1750–53), which was also on Sandusky Bay.

After Pontiac's Rebellion began at Fort Detroit, other forts in the region were attacked. Fort Sandusky was the first to be taken. On May 16, 1763, a group of Wyandots gained entry to the fort under the pretense of holding a council, the same stratagem that had failed in Detroit nine days earlier. They seized the commander and killed the fifteen-man garrison. A number of British traders were put to death as well, and the fort was burned.

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* [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=716 Article from Ohio History Central] , which depicts Fort Sandusky being destroyed in 1761, rebuilt, and then taken again in 1763. Probably confuses events of the French and Indian War with Pontiac's Rebellion. It was destroyed again in 1853.


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