BWB REMEMBERS THE BOOKS OF OUR CHILDHOOD (3 OF 3) The third and
final part in our Children’s Book Week series on the books that
BWB employees remember from their childhood. Don’t forget... Ann
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under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the
evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of
Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group
included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and
eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they
were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an
hour, fifty-two members of Heald's party were killed, and the
rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort
Dearborn before returning to their