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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 Western Confederacy of Native Americans as part of the Northwest Indian War.
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
January 2, 1791 near modern Stockport, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 12 Lenape & Wyandot vs Ohio settlers Siege of Dunlap's Station: January 8–11, 1791 near modern Dunlap, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 2 Native Americans [7] vs Ohio settlers St. Clair's Defeat: November 4, 1791 near modern Fort Recovery, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 893+
The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of American Indians and European American settlers in what became the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Ohio. This was one of the Indians' few unsuccessful attacks during this period.
Blue Jacket's warriors fled from the battlefield to regroup at nearby Fort Miami but found the fort doors locked by the British garrison. (Britain and the United States were by then reaching a close rapprochement to counter Jacobin France in the French Revolution.) The entire battle lasted little more than an hour. [157]
Dunlap is a census-designated place (CDP) in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.The population was 1,658 at the 2020 census.The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place near here on the Great Miami in 1791 during the Northwest Indian War.
The defeat of the American army in late 1791 left Fort Jefferson deep in enemy territory. Determined to drive the American soldiers back to the Ohio River, a Native American force (possibly under the command of Simon Girty) raided the fort in the early Summer 1792. This raid began on 25 June 1792, with an attack of one hundred warriors against ...
Fort St. Clair was a fort built in March 1792 [1] during the Northwest Indian War near the modern city of Eaton, Preble County, Ohio. The site of the fort was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [2]