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08 - Pylon Sculpture Detail, Southwest Corner
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Defense, by sculptor Henry Hering. The Pottawatomie had brokered safe passage in exchange for the fort's remaining supplies of liquor and ammo. But Captain Heald reneged and destroyed it all before they left. Over 600 angry Indians then swooped down on the fleeing party about 1 1/2 miles to the south and began slaughtering them. Some Pottawatomie broke in and saved several settlers (including Kinzie and family) but about 60 (out of an original group of 94 Americans and Miamis) were brutally slain.
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