Ohio History Journal

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Editorialana

Editorialana.                      493

 

FORT LAURENS--ITS SITE AND SIEGE.

The relation of the Ohio country and its pre-state pioneers to the

events of the American Revolution has not yet been properly portrayed.

Until recently leading historians have either ignored it altogether or

slightingly treated it. It will ere long receive due attention. Roosevelt

in "The Winning of the West," Winsor in the "Westward Movement,"

and Moore in "The Northwest Under Three Flags," have given it

more or less consideraton. During the period of the American Revolu-

tion one of the scenes of military importance and romantic interest within

the present bounds of Ohio was the site of Fort Laurens, the first fort

erected after the Declaration of Independence in the territory of the

Buckeye state to be. It will be recalled that the Autumn, Winter and

Spring of 1777-8 was the low ebb of the Colonial cause. Howe's vic-