Word: chikago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Dearborn it was who ordered the building of a fort to protect the distant trading post of "Chikago," gave it his name. From Fort Dearborn marched an unfortunate garrison in 1812, to be annihilated by the Indians on Lake Michigan's sand dunes. Closest Dearborn ever got to the site was probably during the unsuccessful campaign he himself conducted against the British in the same year around the Niagara River in New York...
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