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Book Title: History Of Dearborn County Indiana

34	DEARBORN  COUNTY,  INDIANA.
history as the worst defeat which an American army ever suffered at the hands of
the Indians. The greatest battle which has ever been fought in the United States
against the Indians occurred in the state of Ohio. This was the battle of Fallen
Timbers and occurred August 20, 1794, the scene of the battle being within the
present county of Defiance. After the close of the Revolutionary War the
Indians, urged on by the British, caused the settlers in the Northwest Territory
continued trouble and defeated ever)- detachment sent against them previous to
their defeat by Gen. Anthony Wayne at the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
Although there was some trouble with the Indians after this time, they never
offered serious resistance after this memorable defeat until the fall of 1811,
when Gen. William Henry Harrison completely routed them at the battle of
Tippecanoe.

TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO   (1670-1754).

    Ohio was the first state created out of the old Northwest Territory,
although Indiana had been previously organized as a territory. When the land
comprehended within the Northwest Territory was discovered by the French under
La Salle about 1670, it was a battle-ground of various Indian tribes, although
the Eries, who were located along the shores of Lake Erie, were the only ones
with a more or less definite territory. From 1670 to 1763, the close of the
French and Indian War, the French were in possession of this territory and
established their claims in a positive manner by extensive exploration and
scattered settlements. The chief centers of French settlement were at Detroit,
Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Fort Crevecour and at several missionary stations
around the shores of the great lakes. The French did not succeed in doing this
without incurring the hostility of the Iroquois Indians, a bitter enmity which
was brought about chiefly because the French helped the Shawnees, Wyandots and
Miamis to drive the Iroquois out of the territory west of the Muskingum river in
Ohio.

    It must not be forgotten that the English also laid claim to the Northwest
Territory, basing their claim on the discoveries of the Cabots and the
subsequent charters of Virginia, Massachusetts and Connecticut. These charters
extended the limits of these three colonies westward to the Pacific ocean,
although, as a matter of fact, none of the three colonies made a settlement west
of the Alleghanies until after the Revolutionary War. New York sought to
strengthen her claim to territory west of the Alleghanies in 1701, by getting
from the Iroquois, the bitter enemies of the French, a grant to the


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