This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...volunteers were not able to take any part in the fighting, so quickly did the engagement end. The American loss was thirty-three killed and about a hundred wounded. The Indians suffered more heavily, their dead probably numbering from three score to a hundred. Eight Huron chiefs were among the slain. Wayne destroyed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...volunteers were not able to take any part in the fighting, so quickly did the engagement end. The American loss was thirty-three killed and about a hundred wounded. The Indians suffered more heavily, their dead probably numbering from three score to a hundred. Eight Huron chiefs were among the slain. Wayne destroyed the Indian villages and corn fields and burned the houses of the British agent and traders up to the very walls of the British fort. The British commander did not dare fire upon the Americans, and Wayne, on the other hand, knew that it was not good policy to attack the fort. Wayne built Fort Wayne at the confluence of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Rivers, and in it spent the winter. This decisive defeat produced an effect upon the Indians, especially as the British showed no disposition to help them in any active manner, and soon Wayne was asked for peace. A definite treaty with the Northwestern tribes was made at Greenville during the summer of 1795, and peace reigned along the frontier until just before the War of 1812. The Congress of the United States, May 7th, 1800, ordered a division of the Northwest Territory. It provided that from and after the Fourth day of July of that year, all that part of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River which lies to the westward of a line beginning at the Ohio, opposite the mouth of the Kentucky river, and running thence to Fort Recovery and thence north to Canada, should constitute a separate territory and be called Indiana Territory. The old territory was to retain the name Northwest, with Chillicothe as its seat, while Vincennes was to be the seat of the new territory. By this division the eastern half of southern Michigan and even a little section of Northern Michigan, were reta...
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