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August 15-17, 1782, Captain Caldwell and his combined Shawnee and Wyandot forces attempted to surprise Bryant’s Station. The war party fired on the fort, burned the stable, and tried to stop the re-enforcement of men from Lexington. Next, they demanded the fort surrender, but the pioneers refused. The Warriors finally left after a 24-hour siege. Captain Caldwell then marched to the Battle of Lower Blue Licks.
The Squire’ Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 17
August 15, 1832, Governor Metcalfe rode the 1st stretch of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, a mile and a half, and everyone marveled that one horse could pull 40 passengers. By the following March, six more miles had been completed going towards Frankfort.
Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass By John Dean Wright; pg: 51
August 15, 2020, a Kentucky bred and Keeneland graduate won Saratoga’s GI $500,000 Alabama Stakes.