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What:
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Skirmish/battle/other ___________    American (or allied) commander __________    vs.    British (or allied) commandeer __________    Who (if anyone) won? _____________    Date _____________    Description (if "other") _________________________________________________________________

Where: 40.63722220 -81.4563889 Fort Laurens

Maps: [map notes]

• 40.63722220 -81.4563889 Fort Laurens
• GNIS record for Fort Laurens. Note mapping options.
• Confidence: 5 (fort, siege), 2 (other actions)

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• James Handasyd Perkins, John Mason Peck Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which ..., 1857. p.299 ff.

• Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State:, p.693 ff., 1896, State of Ohio. Accounts given from both the American and British viewpoints.

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• "Friends of Fort Laurens". Includes brief history, and partial roster of soldiers stationed there or involved in its support. Much of the information found here is derived from Rev. War pension statements. A few pension statement transcriptions are provided. This link, as well as addition of this location, suggested by Jeffrey Oleander.

• "Fort Laurens" Park.

• "Fort Laurens". Ohio History Central, an Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History.

• "Private Page for Fort Laurens Project". Images and artist's renderings of Fort Laurens model.

• " Ft Laurens Musketball Concentration: evidence of a fight or fiasco?". Ohio Archaeology Blog. Also found here.

• Old photographs related to Fort Laurens.. Ohio Historical Society.

• "Tomb of the Unknown Patriot- Fort Laurens in Ohio". Images of site.

• RevWar75  
  
• Jan 1779 listing. late 1/1779, near Fort Laurens, per Boatner. British victory.
• Feb 1779 listing. near Fort Laurens, per Boatner. British victory.
• Mar 1779 listing. 3/28/1779 near Fort Laurens, per Boatner. Draw.
• Mar 1779 listing. 3/1779 Siege of Fort Laurens, per Boatner. Draw.
• Jul 1779 listing. 7/1779 Fort Laurens. Draw. Per Peckham.
• Aug 1779 listing. 8/1779 Fort Laurens abandoned. Draw. Per Boatner.

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[Can you provide a level of confidence for this site? 5 (about as good as we hope to get) down to 1 (somewhere around here). 0 (usually used for "somewhere along this stream".]

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