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The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and the Battle of Pickaway, was a military engagement fought on August 8, 1780, at the Indian village of Piqua along the Mad River in western Ohio Country between the Kentucky County militia under General George Rogers Clark and Shawnee Indians under Chief Black Hoof.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 13:47, 25 June 2018: 531 × 602 (312 KB): Higher Ground 1 == Summary == {{Information | Description = Map of the Battle of Piqua in 1780 by James Galloway in 1798 from the Lyman Drape Manuscripts Collection MSS 8J265, redrawn in 1994, from the Selected Papers From The 1991 And 1992 George Rogers Clark Symposium | Source = [https://www ...
Until 1780, Piqua had been the capital town of the Shawnee located on the Mad River about 23 miles southeast of the modern town (near Springfield). That year, an expedition by Gen. George Rogers Clark culminated in the Battle of Piqua, after which the town and surrounding fields were burned. The Shawnee relocated north and west to the Great ...
The Piqua Sept of the Ohio Shawnee Tribe have placed a traditional cedar pole in commemoration of their history here. It is located "on the southern edge of the George Rogers Clark Historical Park, in the lowlands in front of the park's 'Hertzler House.'" [ 4 ]
The city of Piqua, Ohio, was established later near this site. Pickawillany's destruction directly encouraged greater British fortification and military presence at other outposts in the Ohio Valley, and has been seen as a precursor to the wider British-French conflict that would become the French and Indian War .
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Chalahgawtha (or, more commonly in English, Chillicothe(/ ˌ tʃ ɪ l ɪ ˈ k ɒ θ i / CHIL-ih-KOTH-ee) [1] was the name of one of the five divisions (or bands) of the Shawnee, a Native American people, during the 18th century.
A Kispoko Sept of Ohio Shawnee (Hog Creek Reservation) was listed as residing in Cridersville, Ohio as of 2013, according to the 500 Nations website. [5] But, an 1880 source states that the Shawnee, including those formerly living in the Hog Creek Reservation (present-day Shawnee Township), were removed to eastern Kansas in 1832, receiving payment of $30,000 in fifteen annual installments for ...