The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army

225 Pages·2014·3.65 MB·English

by  Colin G. Calloway

The Victory with No Name

The Victory with
No Name
The Native American Defeat of the
First American Army
Colin G. Calloway
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Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953–
The victory with no name : the Native American defeat
of the first American army / Colin G. Calloway.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-938799-1 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1. St. Clair’s Campaign, 1791.
2. Battles—Ohio River Valley—History—18th century.
3. St. Clair, Arthur, 1734–1818.
4. Indians of North America—Wars—Ohio River Valley.
5. Indians of North America—Wars—1790–1794. I. Title.
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To Marcia, Graeme, and Meg

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
1. Confederations: America in 1790 11
2. Building a Nation on Indian Land 35
3. The United States Invades Ohio 61
4. The Indian Resistance Movement 93
5. The Battle with No Name 115
6. Recriminations and Reversal 129
Epilogue 153
Notes 165
Bibliography 185
Index 197
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Acknowledgments
t oxford university press I am grateful to my editor,
A
Timothy Bent, for taking up this project and helping me to bring
out the story more succinctly, to Keely Latcham for her efficient edi-
torial assistance, and to Joellyn Ausanka for guiding the manuscript
through production. For readings of the manuscript, thanks to Elliott
West and two anonymous readers who provided generous and helpful
comments, and to Drew Cayton for casting his expert eye over chap-
ter 2. I have depended for years on generations of historians who have
written about the Old Northwest—and whose work makes the national
amnesia about St. Clair’s defeat the more remarkable—and I have
benefited particularly from the work of scholars who have revisited
the region to recover its Native American history. I am grateful to the
staffs of the Chicago History Museum, the National Archives at Kew,
England, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York State
Historical Association, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Ohio
State Library for assistance with archival materials and images. At
Dartmouth, as always, thanks to my colleagues in the Baker-Berry
Library, the History Department, and the Native American Studies
Program for their support and assistance. For everything else, thanks
to Marcia, Graeme, and Meg.
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