Fort Miami ( Ohio ) Fort Miami was a fort built on the Maumee River at the eastern edge of the present - day city of Maumee , Ohio , and southwest of the present - day city of Toledo , Ohio . It was built by the British on territory disputed between Britain and the USA ; the terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War clearly assigned the territory to the United States , but according to the British interpretation of the treaty , the relevant terms and concession of territory had no force unless and until the USA complied with the terms relating , e . g . , to compensating Loyalists for their loss of property and permitting their return unmolested , etc . ( These and related disputes were superseded by the fully implemented terms of later treaties . ) In 1794 the British built Fort Miami ( Miamis ) to block Gen . Anthony Wayne ' s advance on Detroit and to encourage the Ohio Indians in their resistance to U . S . penetration north and west of the Ohio River . The fort was a log stockade , which had four bastions , each capable of mounting four cannon , a river battery , barracks , officers ' quarters , supply buildings , and various shops . A defensive ditch , 20 to 25 feet deep , ran along the land side of the fort . Late in 1794 General Wayne and his troops marched northward toward Fort Miami from Fort Greenville . Just south of the fort , ambushed by the Native Americans and a small party of Canadian militia , he ordered a charge and dispersed his adversaries , in the Battle of Fallen Timbers . The Native Americans fled to Fort Miami , but the commander of the fort shut them out . Beaten and disillusioned , the Native Americans dispersed and one year later their tribal elders gathered at Fort Greenville to negotiate with Wayne . The Treaty of Greenville opened most of the present State of Ohio and part of present Indiana to United States settlement . In 1796 , under the terms of Jay ' s Treaty ( 1794 ) , the British abandoned Fort Miami . Wayne occupied and garrisoned it , but about 1799 U . S . troops abandoned it . The fort played a role in British support for Native American hostilities against the U . S . In August 1794 , Anthony Wayne defeated the Native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers within sight of Fort Miami . Under the terms of Jay ' s Treaty , the British evacuated frontier posts within U . S . territory . The British again occupied the site during the War of 1812 , which at the time was opposite the American Fort Meigs . During the War of 1812 Tecumseh , the Shawnee chief , and British officials maintained headquarters at the fort , from where they moved against Gen . William Henry Harrison at Fort Meigs . The fort structure no longer stands , and the site reverted to agricultural and , later , public park use . Today it sits as a small enclave in residential development . In 1942 several Ohio civic and patriotic organizations acquired a part of the site of the old fort . Nothing remained of the original structure except parts of the earthworks . In 1953 the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society conducted preliminary excavations , and in 1957 the Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio placed a marker at the site , which remains undeveloped . In 1975 , the site of the fort was added to the National Register of Historic Places . It is located at ; a state memorial has been created at the site . Ft . Miami Elementary School of the Maumee Public School System is two blocks away and named after the fort .