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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Fort Shelby in Wisconsin


From Wikipedia.

I have recently mentioned this fort as being built 200 years ago this month in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Territory.

Built 1814 at Prairie du Chien.  Named for Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary War soldier and first governor of Kentucky.  It was a wooden palisade fort built on a mound with a blockhouse.

Captured by the British at the Siege of Prairie du Chien in July 1814 and renamed Fort McKay after Major William McKay, commander of the British force and remained under their control until the end of the war.  It was destroyed when they left.

American Fort Crawford built on the same site in 1816.

--Brock-Perry


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