This article is about a fort in the modern U.S. state of Michigan. For a list of other forts with the same name, see Fort Miami.
Fort Miami was a fort on the bank of the St. Joseph River at the site of the present-day city of St. Joseph, Michigan, in the United States.
It was established in November 1679 by a band of French explorers led by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on the banks of what was then called the River Miami as a mission and Indian trading outpost. His soldiers destroyed it the next year.[1]
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- ↑ Timothy Edward Howard (1907). A history of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Volume 1. The Lewis publishing company. p. 24. http://books.google.com/books?id=QS8VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=discovery+of+st.+joseph+river&source=bl&ots=Fa_xcOBwaF&sig=ceArnHsH5jZHfbqGM_7aGVNzyzw&hl=en&ei=AnKyTY7XE4GusAOJ_JHaCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=la%20salle&f=false. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
Coordinates: 42°6.655′N 86°28.939′W / 42.110917°N 86.482317°W
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