Two Views of the Fort Dearborn Massacre: The Potawatomi Indians & the U. S. Army During the War of 1812-The Fort Dearborn Massacre by Linai T. Helm an

Massacre in Illinois during the War of 1812 Fort Dearborn was a frontier outpost in Illinois Territory where the city of Chicago now stands. The early history of the United States of America was often one of war on two fronts, because until the entire country was settled, irrespective of which other enemy the government of the day was fighting, there remained the continuing danger of attacks by hostile native Indian tribes. Indeed, the frontier settlements were often stripped of military fo...