Ohio's Fort Meigs-- Part 2

Virginia militia Brigadier General Joel Leftwich initially supervised construction, but soon U.S. Army Engineer Eleazor Wool completed it. It was an earth and timber palisaded construction, including seven two-story blockhouses and five artillery batteriies that covered some 10 acres of land. //// Fort Meigs was completed by late April 1813, just in time to oppose a British advance under General Harry Proctor with 2,000 Britisg regulars and Canadian militia and 1,000 Indians under Shawnee Chief Tecumseh moving southward from Fort Malden in Canada. They began a siege of the fort on May 1st. ///// --Brock-Perry