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St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, [3] was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Northwestern Confederacy of Native Americans as part of the Northwest Indian War.
Historical Marker showing conflicts on the Wabash River. The term Battle of the Wabash has been used to refer to significant battles on or near the Wabash River. History records several known battles along the river. Battle of Vincennes (1779) Harmar's Defeat (1790) St. Clair's Defeat (1791) is alternatively referred to as the Battle of the Wabash.
During the onset of the Northwest Indian War (1786–1795), there were numerous skirmishes around Vincennes in 1786 between American settlers and Native Americans near Vincennes, a frontier town on the Wabash River. American pioneers had been pouring into the area after the American Revolutionary War, creating tensions with the Native ...
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These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River. The names of the installations were changed by the various ruling parties, and the forts were considered strategic in the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Northwest Indian War and the War of 1812. The last fort was abandoned in 1816.
Little Turtle is generally credited with leading [31] [32] a coalition force of about 1,000 warriors that routed the U.S. forces near the headwaters of the Wabash River on November 4, 1791. The battle remains the U.S. Army's worst defeat by American Indians, with 623 federal soldiers killed and another 258 wounded.
The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01318-2. Calloway, Colin G. (2015). The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199388011. Calloway, Colin Gordon (2018). The Indian World of George Washington ...