Name used for three unrelated forts:

1. Fort Miami, Michigan: established by the French in 1679 on the Miami (later called the St. Joseph's) River near its mouth at the foot of Lake Michigan, as one of LaSalle's proposed arc of forts stretching from Canada to New Orleans. It was destroyed by fire in the 1680s.

2. Fort Miamis, Indiana: established by the French in 1706 at modern Fort Wayne, Ind., and originally called Fort St. Phillippe. It was strategically located near the headwaters of the Maumee River, which ran northeast to Lake Erie, and those of the Wabash, which ran southwesterly toward the Ohio and Mississippi. During the French and Indian War, the British seized it in 1760 but it was destroyed and its occupants systematically killed in a much-publicized massacre during Pontiac's War in 1763. In 1794, the U.S. built Fort Wayne nearby.

3. Fort Miamis, Ohio: established by the English on the Maumee River in the early 1790s as a direct encroachment on U.S. territory. After the U.S. victory at the nearby Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, the fort was ceded to the U.S. and staffed until 1798. During the War of 1812, the British seized it again; it was the site of a massacre of American prisoners by unrestrained Indian warriors in 1813. It was restored to the U.S. in 1817.

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[Source: Hannings, Bud. Forts of the United States: An Historical Dictionary.... (McFarland&Co., 2006)]