Siege of Fort Meigs

Siege of Fort Meigs
	Part of the War of 1812 and Tecumseh's War
	; Fort Meigs
Date	28 April 1813 – 9 May 1813
Location	Present-day Perrysburg, Ohio
Result	American victory British abandon siege;
Belligerents
United Kingdom; Native Americans; Upper Canada	United States
Commanders and leaders
Henry Procter; Tecumseh; Roundhead	William Henry Harrison; Green Clay; William Dudley †
Strength
1,250 Native Americans; 433 regulars; 462 Canadian militia	1,200 regulars; 1,600 militia
Casualties and losses
British; 14 killed; 47 wounded; 41 captured; Indians; 19 killed and wounded; Total; 121	160 killed; 190 wounded; 100 wounded prisoners; 530 captured; 6 missing; Total; 986

The siege of Fort Meigs took place in late April to early May 1813 during the War of 1812 in northwestern Ohio, present-day Perrysburg. A small British Army unit with support from Indians attempted to capture the recently constructed fort to forestall an American offensive against Detroit, and its Fort Detroit in the Great Lakes region which the British from the north in Canada had captured the previous year. An American sortie and relief attempt failed with heavy casualties, but the British failed to capture the fort and were forced to raise the siege.

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