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THE CENTENNIAL OF CROGHAN'S VICTORY.

BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER.

The historic and picturesque little city of Fremont, Ohio,

celebrated on the second of August, the centenary of Croghan's

Victory, the one successful land battle on American soil of the

War of 1812. Fort Stephenson, on the banks of Sandusky

River, at the village then known as Lower Sandusky, was gar-

risoned by Major

George Croghan, a

youth of twenty-one,

with a hundred and

sixty men and a sin-

gle cannon. General

Proctor, with eight

hundred British Reg-

ulars, sailed up the

Sandusky river, on

boats of Commodore

Barclay's fleet, and

joined by two thou-

sand Indians under

Tecumseh for two

days besieged the fort.

Against this vastly su-

perior force, Croghan,

having "decided to

maintain this place

and by Heaven we

can!" won, with but

the loss of a single

man, the victory

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