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RE: "No battles were ever fought at the fort. It served mostly as place to regulate the fur trade, rather than as a strategic military outpost."
Somewhat true, barely, but consider that circa in 1820 virtually all US citizens lived east of the Mississippi River and two-thirds lived east of the Appalachians. The "frontier" was a very dangerous place - sometimes hosting marauding outlaws, enemy armies (British, Spanish), and some hostile Indians. James Monroe's State of the Union in...