TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I [The French and British Period] Page 1 CHAPTER II [The Establishment of Fort Wayne—Government Outpost of Defense, Diplomacy, and Trade] Page 27 CHAPTER III [The Impending Conflict] Page 50 CHAPTER IV [The Siege of Fort Wayne] Page 63 CHAPTER V [Evacuation of the Fort and the Increased Indian Trade] Page 79 CHAPTER VI [Platting of Fort Wayne and the First Local Government] Page 94 CHAPTER VII [The Treaty of 1826 and the Removal of the Indian Agency] Page 99 APPENDIX [Bibliography] Page 106 [Index] Page 111