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Book Title: History Of Dearborn County Indiana

                              HISTORICAL.

                               CHAPTER I.
                        RELATED STATE HISTORY.

    The first white men to set foot upon the Northwest Territory were French
traders and missionaries under the leadership of La Salle. This was about the
year 1670 and subsequent discoyeries and explorations in this region by the
French gave that nation practically undisputed possession of all the territory
organized in 1787 as the Northwest Territory. It is true that the English
colonies of Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts claimed that their charters
extended their grants westward to the Mississippi river. However, France claimed
this territory and successfully maintained possession of it until the dose of
the French and Indian War in 1763. At that time the treaty of Paris transferred
all of the French claims east of the Mississippi river to England, as well as
all claims of France to territory on the mainland of North America. For the next
twenty years the Northwest Territory was under the undisputed control of
England, but became a part of the United States by the treaty which terminated
the Revolutionary War in 1783. Thus the flags of three nations have floated over
the territory now comprehended within the present state of Indiana—the tri-color
of France, the union jack of England and the stars and stripes of the United
States.

    History will record the fact that there was another nation, however, which
claimed possession of this territory and, while the Indians can hardly be called
a nation, yet they made a gallant fight to retain their hunting grounds. The
real owners of this territory struggled against heavy odds to maintain their
supremacy and it was not until the battle of Tippecanoe, in the fall of 1811,
that the Indians gave up the unequal struggle. Tecumseh, the Washington of his
race, fought fiercely to save this territory for his people, but the white man
finally overwhelmed him, and "Lo, the poor Indian" was pushed westward across
the 'Mississippi. The history of the Northwest Territory is full of the bitter
fights which the Indians waged in trying to drive the white man out and the
defeat which the Indians inflicted on General St. Clair on November 4, 1792,
will go down in the annals of American


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