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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.
Blue Jacket (1745–1810), Shawnee war chief known for his defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country; Charles Blue Jacket (1817–1897), 19th-century Shawnee chief in Kansas, and Methodist Minister; Jim Bluejacket (1887–1947), one of the first Native Americans to play in major league baseball
Little is known about him, since he only appears in written historical records during the last three years of his life, primarily because of his interactions with the famous American frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton.
The younger Blue Jacket was born along the south banks of the Huron River in Michigan in what is today Monroe County, Michigan. However, a very short time after Blue Jacket's birth, the family moved to Piqua, Ohio. Blue Jacket was educated at the Quaker School in Piqua and mission schools in Kansas. The Blue Jacket family moved to Kansas in ...
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The Blue Jacket was an 1854 medium clipper well known for the lavish decoration of its staterooms and saloon. She served in the Liverpool and Australia trades. [3]: 173 The ship was named after the blue jackets, a traditional name for sailors in the US and British navies.
The Rangers were an original six NHL franchise in 1926 and have won four Stanley Cups and nearly 3,000 regular-season games. New York has made the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 14 of the last 18 seasons ...
Cecil was watching the Columbus Blue Jackets play the Calgary Flames on March 16, 2002, on tickets received as an early gift from her father for her 14th birthday. With 12:10 remaining in the second period, a shot by the Blue Jackets' Espen Knutsen was deflected by the Flames' Derek Morris and went over the glass behind the net, striking her in the left temple.