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The Battle of Chillicothe was a military engagement of the western theater of the American Revolutionary War. In May 1779, Colonel John Bowman of the Kentucky County militia, accompanied by Benjamin Logan and Levi Todd , led between 160 and 300 militiamen against the Shawnee settlement of Old Chillicothe .
The Battle of the Camel (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة اَلْجَمَلِ, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jamal) took place outside of Basra, Iraq, in 36 AH (656 CE). The battle was fought between the army of the fourth caliph Ali (r. 656–661), on one side, and the rebel army led by Aisha, Talha and Zubayr, on the other side.
The two parties fought the Battle of the Camel in December 656, from which Ali emerged victorious. Afterward, Mu'awiya, the incumbent governor of Syria, declared war on Ali, ostensibly to avenge Uthman's death. The two parties fought the Battle of Siffin in July 657, which ended in a stalemate and arbitration.
Battle of Fallen Timbers: August 20, 1794 near modern Maumee, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 77 [9] Western Confederacy vs United States of America Battle of Marblehead Peninsula [10] September 29, 1812 modern Marblehead, Ohio: War of 1812 [11] 48 Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States citizens Siege of Fort Meigs [12] April 28 - May 9, 1813 ...
Location of Ross County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ross County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ross County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which ...
An early crude map drawn sometime before 1813 by Thomas Worthington, Ohio's sixth governor whose house Adena is the namesake of the Adena culture, has notations that indicate the enclosure and conical made had lost half of their height due to plowing by 1846 and were originally at least 10 feet (3.0 m) in height. The crude map also indicated ...
In 1810, Kenton moved to Urbana, Ohio. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the state militia. He served in the War of 1812 as both a scout and as leader of a militia group in the Battle of the Thames in 1813. The Shawnee chief Tecumseh was killed in this battle . Kenton was chosen to identify Tecumseh's body.
As a result, the Chillicothe Shawnee moved their town on the Scioto River further west to the Little Miami River, near what is now Xenia, Ohio. Encouraged and supplied by British officials in Detroit , Blackfish and others launched raids against American settlers in Kentucky, hoping to drive them out of the region.