What is "fort defiance"

Fort Defiance may refer to:

• Fort Defiance (British Columbia), winter quarters for American Captain Robert Gray

• Fort Defiance, Arizona, an unincorporated community
• Fort Defiance (California), formerly Roop's Fort, located in Susanville
• Fort Morris, Georgia, known as Fort Defiance during the War of 1812
• Fort Defiance (Illinois), a Civil War post commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant, site of Fort Defiance Park
• Fort Defiance State Park near Estherville, Iowa
• Fort Defiance (Maryland), a War of 1812 fort on the Elk River
• Fort Defiance (Massachusetts), a 19th-century fort in Gloucester
• Fort Defiance (Lenoir, North Carolina), former plantation home of General William Lenoir
• Fort Defiance (Ohio), in present-day Defiance, Ohio
• Fort Defiance, Tennessee, in Clarksville TN, later renamed Fort Bruce
• Fort Defiance, briefly the name of the Presidio La Bahía in Goliad, Texas during the Texas Revolution
• Fort Defiance (Vermont), a fort in Vermont
• Fort Defiance, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Fort Defiance (Wisconsin), a fort during the Black Hawk War

• Fort Defiance (film), a 1951 Western directed by John Rawlins

Fort Defiance was ordered built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in August 1794 at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers. It was the last of a line of defenses constructed by American forces in the campaign leading to the Northwest Indian War's Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794.

Work began on August 9, 1794 and was completed by August 17. The name was derived from a declaration by Charles Scott, who was leading a band of Kentucky militiamen in support of Wayne, that: "I defy the English, Indians, and all the devils of hell to take it." The post was considered one of the strongest fortifications built in that period.

Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers, Wayne used Fort Defiance as his base of operations and ordered the destruction of all Native American villages and their crops within a radius of the fort. Under terms of the Treaty of Greenville, signed on August 3, 1795, the native nations ceded six square miles around the fort and allowed the Americans to maintain a trading post there, even though it was within the area of land defined by the "Greenville Treaty Line", beyond which Americans had agreed not to settle.

Until the War of 1812, Fort Defiance was one of the westernmost outposts in Ohio. William Henry Harrison used it as one base for his attacks against Native Americans during Tecumseh's War, and the fort played a role in the War of 1812 as well.

The city of Defiance, Ohio, was founded at the fort's location. In 1904, the site of the fort was chosen for the Defiance Public Library.

Fort Defiance served as a reference point for defining the boundary line of land cession in the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. This north-south line would be used again as the Michigan Meridian in the survey of lands in Michigan.

Today, a park occupies the site of the fort, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers near Cairo in Alexander County, Illinois. The strategic significance of the site has been known since prehistoric times with archaeological evidence of warfare dating to the Mississippian era. It is the southernmost point in the state of Illinois. Fort Defiance Park, formerly a State Park, is owned and maintained by the city of Cairo. At elevation, Fort Defiance Point is Illinois' lowest point.1

Fort Defiance was a small outpost built by the crew of the Columbia Rediviva for use as winter quarters during 1791-1792 on Meares Island in present-day British Columbia, Canada. They were under the command of American merchant and maritime fur trader Captain Robert Gray.

Fort Defiance was an earthworks fortification on the western bank of the Elk River in northern Maryland. The fort was in use from 1813 to 1815 during the War of 1812 and repelled British forces on April 29, 1813. Today, there is a historical marker located approximately northwest of the original site of the fort.

Fort Defiance was a fort that existed from 1774 to around 1865 on Fort Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Originally named Fort Lillie, it was renamed in 1814, burned in 1833, and rebuilt in 1851. Prior to the establishment of the fort, the British Fort Anne was located here, and was built in 1703, and rebuilt in 1743. Currently, nothing remains of the fort.

Fort Defiance is a historic plantation house located near Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. The main block was built between 1788 and 1792, and is a two-story, frame structure measuring 28 feet by 40 feet. A wing was added in 1823. It was the home of Revolutionary War General William Lenoir. The property was transferred to the Caldwell County Historical Society in 1965 and operated as a historic house museum.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Fort Defiance was one of the last garrisoned stockade forts constructed in territorial Wisconsin. It was located approximately five miles southeast of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. It was located in the booming lead mining region in an area of early settlement. The fort was built by local settlers in 1832 when developing tensions over Native American land rights erupted into the Black Hawk War. Although Fort Defiance did not experience attack, it did have a garrison of about 40 militia men who were said to be among the best drilled in the territory. Fort Defiance had two blockhouses located at opposite corners of the stockade. Within the walls were two buildings used to accommodate the garrison and the families of settlers in case of a siege. There are no visible remains.

Fort Defiance is a 1951 American Western film directed by John Rawlins and written by Louis Lantz. The film stars Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, Tracey Roberts, George Cleveland and Ralph Sanford. The film was released on October 9, 1951, by United Artists.