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Old Betsy and the defense of Fort Stephenson
In Fremont Ohio a six pound cannon named Old Betsy stands near a Civil War memorial. The article retells Major George Croghan and his 150 defenders holding Fort Stephenson against Proctor and Tecumseh’s forces in August 1813. Croghan’s leadership and Betsy’s blast turned the tide, saving the Northwest for the United States and delaying British invasion of Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Fremont
Ohio
United States
George Croghan
Fort Stephenson
Maj
Louisville
George Rogers Clark
William and Mary College
Virginia
Boyd
William Henry Morrison
Tecumseh
Croghan
Tippecanoe
Seventeenth Infantry
Fort Meigs
Sandusky River
Lake Erie
Lower
Sandusky
Old Northwest
Erie
Upper Sandusky
Oliver Hazard Perry
Stephenson
James Hunter
Benjamin Johnston
Cyrus A. Baylor
John Meek
Joseph Duncan
Edmund Shipp
Anderson
Proctor
Malden
Maumee
Harrison
Wells
Porthole
Eliott
Chambers
Dixon
Ensign Shipp
Othe Fort
Shipp
Elliott
Hunter
Short
Broghan
State of
Western Newspaper Union