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The Northwestern Confederacy ceased to function as an entity, and many of its leaders pledged peace with the United States. A new pan-Indian movement, led by Tecumseh, formed a decade later. According to historian William Hogeland, the Northwestern Confederacy was the "high-water mark in resistance to white expansion." [56]
The confederacy had between 19 and 40 warriors killed and an unknown number wounded. [159] The battle fostered distrust between the Native nations and between the confederacy and the British; it was the last time the Northwestern Confederacy gathered a large military force to oppose the United States.
Following the attacks, the Native American confederacy moved their center away from Kekionga to the Auglaize River. [37] Harmar's losses were the worst defeat of U.S. forces by Indians up to that time. It was surpassed by St. Clair's defeat [38] in 1791 and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the late 19th century in the West. [39]
Powhatan Confederacy: late 16th cent. – 1677 AD: Indian Confederation of Algonquian-speaking people in modern day Virginia. Wabanaki Confederacy: 1606–1862 AD, 1993 AD-present: A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States. Neutral Confederacy: 1615 - 1653: Iron Confederacy: pre 1692 - 1885 AD Sip Song Chau Tai: pre ...
Quickly becoming the dominant Native American leader in the northwestern United States, Tecumseh turned his attention to the south. In 1811, he traveled to meet with leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes in the hope of uniting them with him in the confederacy in the north. With their help he believed they would be powerful enough to defy the ...
Following the successive defeats, the United States sent delegates to discuss peace with the Northwestern Confederacy, but the two sides could not agree on a boundary line. The United States dispatched a new expedition led by General Anthony Wayne , which defeated the confederacy at the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers .
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