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Manuel
Advanced Member
USA
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 Posted - 01 Jun 2005 : 16:09:10
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"Following the American Revolution, the Native American peoples of the Midwest were increasingly pushed from their homelands by white settlement. Two ill-fated U.S. military expeditions, led by Generals Josiah Harmar (1790) and Arthur St. Clair (1791), were defeated by a confederation of Native American tribes led by Michikinikwa (Litte Turtle) of the Miami.
On Aug. 20, 1794, Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne and his Legion of the United States met and defeated the confederated tribes, led by Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) of the Shawnee and Michikinikwa, at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Despite later attempts by Native Americans under Tecumseh of the Shawnee to halt white encroachment, the loss at Fallen Timbers and the ensuing Treaty of Greenville (1795) opened the lands of the Northwest Territory to white settlement and initiated the closing of them to Native Americans.
This archaeological project is an attempt to accurately locate and preserve the field of battle and to more fully understand the motives and movements of the combatants and their people before, during and after the pivotal Battle of Fallen Timbers."
In its entirety at:
http://www.heidelberg.edu/FallenTimbers/index.html |
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Fallen Timbers Battlefield
