Ohio History Journal

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THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF

THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE SIEGE OF

FORT MEIGS.

 

PERRYSBURG, JULY 27, 1913.

 

 

 

BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER.

"Hadst thou my three kingdoms to range in," said James

the First to a fly; "and yet must thou needs get into my eye?"

Which homely speech might

be paraphrased for the pres-

ent purpose of introduction to

this subject to read: "Had

Great Britain and America

their vast extent of territory

and all the ocean between to

range in, and must they needs

select the shores of compara-

tively insignificant rivers in

the wilderness and the end of

a lake where the waters of

those rivers commingle,

whereon to settle their respec-

tive bounds, as well as a half

century of political differ-

ences?" Seemingly so; and it

is the centennial celebration

of these conflicts, notably two

of them, those on the banks

of the Maumee and the San-

dusky rivers, in northwestern Ohio,-details of the centennial

celebration rather than of the historical events themselves-with

which these sketches have to do; followed by the tale from an

other's hand of the centenary of the third in the series of notable

and decisive events within the territorial limits of Ohio, Perry's

Victory on Lake Erie.

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