On Aug. 2, 1813, 500 British troops with their Indian allies were repulsed by American soldiers at Sandusky, Ohio, a frontier outpost on Lake Erie. Grignon, Augustin. "Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin" at Turning Points in Wisconsin History. 

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