Fallen Timbers

[ faw-luhn tim-berz ]

noun

1. a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes Northwest Indian Confederation was defeated by General Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.

Example Sentences

Then came the tug of war, and for hours the carnival of battle raged among the fallen timbers and around the base of the hill.

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Sale met them amidst the ruins—amidst the crumbled masonry and the fallen timbers.

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Hence the popular name of the engagement, “Battle of Fallen Timbers.”

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This could be seen through the window and the interstices of the half-fallen timbers.

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The walls are very high, and the fallen timbers lie strewed adown the precipitous descent.

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