Northwest Indian Confederation | American Indian organization | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Battle of Fallen Timbers

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  In Battle of Fallen Timbers
  …the United States and the Northwest Indian Confederation on the Maumee River near what is now Toledo, Ohio. After two devastating U.S. losses at the hands of the Northwest Indian Confederation, Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne took command of the U.S. Army and retaliated against the allied tribes with an expeditionary…
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destruction by Wayne

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  In Anthony Wayne
  …War, who later destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio (August 20, 1794).
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formation

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  In American frontier: The first frontier
  …under the banner of the Northwest Indian Confederation. In 1791 they delivered a stunning defeat to an American military expedition that had been sent to pacify the region. U.S. Pres. George Washington dispatched Gen. Anthony Wayne and a much larger force to the region, and the Americans effectively crushed the…
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Saint Clair’s Defeat

• In Saint Clair’s Defeat
  …grounds with British support, a Northwest Indian Confederation was gradually molded between 1785 and 1787, consisting mainly of Shawnee, Delaware, Ottawa, Iroquois, Ojibwa, Miami, and Potawatomi. Kentucky frontiersmen reacted to this threat by initiating raiding parties on native villages as early as 1788, and
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