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Memoirs Of A Huguenot Family (1853)

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Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1853 года (издательство "New York: G. P. Putnam&Co." ). Несмотря на то, что была проведена серьезная работа по восстановлению первоначального качества издания, на некоторых страницах могут обнаружиться небольшие" огрехи" :помарки, кляксы и т. п.

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James Fontaine

James Fontaine (1757 to 1790) was an officer who served in Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. The name is spelled several ways, including "Fountaine".

James Fontaine is believed to have been born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1757. At an early age he entered on a military career, becoming a member of the first expert rifle company raised in Buckingham District, Virginia, for the defense of the colony in 1775. Later this company was attached to the 2nd Virginia Regiment, Oct 21, 1775. Served until March 1776, near Williamsburg, Virginia.

Fontaine moved to Kentucky, where he served as Major in the Northwest Indian War. In 1790 he served under Gen. Josiah Harmar in a march northward from Cincinnati against the Miami, under the leadership of Little Turtle.

Fountaine was killed on October 22, 1790 at a battle variously known as "Harmar's defeat", "Battle of the Maumee", "Battle of Kekionga", or "Battle of the Miami Towns". This occurred near where the St. Joseph River and St. Mary's River merge to form the Maumee River, near modern Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The Miami called it the "Battle of the Pumpkin Fields", because, after the battle, the scalped heads of the Americans reminded them of a pumpkin field.

Fountain County, Indiana was named in his honor.

References

Hulbert, Archer Butler. 1904. "Military roads of the Mississippi Basin the conquest of the Old Northwest". Historic highways of America, v. 8. Cleveland, Ohio: A.H. Clark. [http://books.google.com/books?id=MRQOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA88&dq=%22Major+James+Fontaine%22&ei=n-JBR4nRHYKotgP08_XtBg&ie=ISO-8859-1]

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/086.htm Butler County, Ohio History]

* [http://graves.inssar.org/ Burial of James Fountain]

* [http://users.anderson.edu/~roebuck/woodland_languages.html Woodland Indian Languages]
* [http://littleturtle.net/harmar.shtml Harmar's Defeat]

ee also

*Josiah Harmar

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