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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Clair, Arthur 1734-1818 (search)
er the immediate Map of the Northwestern Territory. command of Gen. Richard Butler. With General St. Clair as chief, these troops marched northward. They built Fort Hamilton, on the Miami River, 20 miles from Fort Washington, and garrisoned it. Forty-two miles farther on they built Fort Jefferson, and, when moving from that post, late in October, there were evidences that Indian scouts were hovering on their flanks. The invaders halted and encamped on a tributary of the Wabash, in Darke county, O., 100 miles north from Fort Washington (now Cincinnati). There the wearied soldiers slept (Nov. 3), without suspicion of danger near. During the night the sentinels gave warning of prowling Indians, and early the next morning, while the army were preparing for breakfast, they were furiously attacked by the barbarians. The slaughter among the troops was dreadful. General Butler was killed, and most of the other officers were slain or wounded. The army fled in confusion, and it was
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
ty formed......Jan. 2, 1790 Fort Washington erected at Cincinnati......1790 First Masonic lodge of the West established at Marietta......1790 Whites at Big Bottom, Morgan county, massacred by Indians......1790 Gen. Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians......Sept. 30, 1790 Partially defeated near the Miami villages, the expedition fails......Oct. 22, 1790 Expedition of General St. Clair against the Indians; surprised and defeated near Miami villages (now in Darke county,......Nov. 4, 1791 [Except Braddock's, the worst defeat ever experienced in Indian warfare; of about 1,800 men he lost 800.] Benjamin Tupper, chief promoter of the settlement of Marietta, dies there......1792 First newspaper of the Northwest, the Sentinel, editor William Maxwell, appears at Cincinnati......1793 After the defeat of St. Clair, General Wayne was appointed to command against the Indians. Marching into the Indian country late in the autumn of 1793, he built a stoc