Editing Fort Recovery, Ohio (section)

==History==
Two significant battles of the [[Northwest Indian War]] took place at Fort Recovery. At the time, Ohio was claimed and populated by Native American nations, and conflict broke out when the young United States established settlements north of the [[Ohio River]]. In 1791, [[Northwest Territory]] governor [[Arthur St. Clair]] led a campaign north from [[Fort Washington (Ohio)|Fort Washington]] to pacify the [[Western Confederacy]] at [[Kekionga]]. Instead, the United States force was destroyed in the early morning of November 4. [[St. Clair's Defeat]] remains the greatest loss by the United States Army to a Native American force.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hogeland |first=William |title=Autumn of the Black Snake |year=2017 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York |isbn=9780374107345 |lccn=2016052193 |page=374}}</ref>

As a direct result of the Native American victory, the [[Legion of the United States]] was founded and placed under the command of General [[Anthony Wayne|"Mad Anthony" Wayne]]. In late 1793, Wayne led 300 men to the site of St. Clair's defeat and deliberately had Fort Recovery built there. On December 25, they identified the site due to the large amount of unburied remains.  [[Private (rank)|Private]] George Will wrote that to set up camp, the unit had to move bones to make space for their beds.<ref>{{cite book |last=Winkler |first=John F |title=Fallen Timbers 1794: The US Army's first victory |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |year=2013 |isbn= 978-1-7809-6377-8 |page=46}}</ref> On June 30 of the following year, a large Native American force and a few British officers conducted the [[Siege of Fort Recovery]]. Although the Legion suffered high casualties, they were able to maintain control of the fort, in part because they had recovered cannons lost by St. Clair in 1791.  Wayne used Fort Recovery as a staging ground for advances into the territory. He ultimately defeated the Native American confederacy at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in August 1794. In 1795, confederacy representatives signed the [[Treaty of Greenville]], which ceded control of most of the modern state of Ohio, using Fort Recovery as a reference point for the border between Native American and United States territories.<ref>{{cite web |title=Treaty of Greene Ville |publisher=Touring Ohio |url=http://touringohio.com/history/greeneville-treaty.html |access-date=November 21, 2019}}</ref>

In 1818, a Virginia soldier who fought at the battle of St. Clair's Defeat returned to the area in search of silver he left by a standing oak tree. The soldier remained in the area for an unknown amount of time and was later found dead in the woods. In 1852, a local resident struck metal with a grubbing hoe. The metal was iron bands encasing a small wooden box, and 900 Spanish [[doubloon]]s were found, valued at ${{Format price|14000}} (equivalent to ${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US|14000|1852|r=2}}}} in today's dollars){{Inflation-fn|US}}.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Van Wert and Mercer Counties Ohio|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofvanwert00sutt|year=1882|publisher=R. Sutton & Co.|location=Wapakoneta, OH|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofvanwert00sutt/page/446 446]}}</ref>

In September 1851, the town organized Bone Burying Day, to inter the remains of bones that had been discovered from the battles at that location.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fort Recovery State Museum |url=http://www.artcom.com/Museums/newones/45846-a.htm |accessdate=October 25, 2021}}</ref>