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Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument

Monclova Township, Italy

Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument

The Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument or Anthony Wayne Memorial is a statuary group created by Bruce Saville. It was dedicated in 1929 at the site of the Battle of Fallen Timbers which took place on August 20, 1794. At that battle General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeated a combined army of various tribe

s led by Chiefs Little Turtle, Turkey Foot, Blue Jacket and others. The monument is located in a park, 2 miles west of Maumee, Ohio. The monument includes a 15 foot tall base topped by a bronze statue of General Wayne flanked by figures of a Native American scout and a frontiersman. Three bronze bas reliefs decorate the sides of the base. The battle site was named "Fallen Timbers" because a tornado had knocked down a large number of trees there. The United States Post Office Department issued a stamp in 1929 paying tribute to the American victory that featured the image of the monument on it. The Fallen Timbers Battlefield was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. Subsequent discoveries by G. Michael Pratt in 1995 indicated the battlefield itself was not where first thought, down on the river floodplain, but rather above it and north of the monument. The Landmark designation...

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