Pickawillany

Pickawillany was a Miami Indian village and trading post located on the Great Miami River; the present-day city of Piqua, Ohio in the United States was later developed at this location after the village was destroyed in 1752 by the French with Indian allies.

History
Founded in 1748 by La Demoiselle (Memeskia), a Miami chief, the village became a trading post for the French coming down from Canada. It was destroyed by the French and their Native American allies under Charles Langlade in June 1752.

(Langlade also took part in Braddock's Defeat three years later during the Seven Years War.) The remains of Pickawillany may have been the site of a 1763 battle during the war described by Black Hoof, in which Miami and Wyandot fortified themselves against Delaware and Shawnee warriors, who gave up the siege after seven days.

Chief Little Turtle (Michikinikwa), at Greeneville, reportedly said, "You discovered on the Great Miami traces of an old fort. It was not a French fort, brother, it was a fort built by me." Historians believe this is an error in translation, and that he said "a fort built by Mishikinakwa (The Turtle)," the name of an early Miami leader known to be at Pickawillany. Pickawillany was a trading post/fort.