Battle of Fallen Timbers
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Native Americans, American Indians, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: American Indian History, American Early National History (1789-1815)
- Geographical Location: Ohio
- Date: August 20, 1794
Article abstract: Type of action: Battle for westward expansion in the American Northwest Indian wars. Result: A Native American defeat opened up the Northwest Territory to settlement by European-Americans.
On August 20, 1794, a Native American confederacy of several tribes suffered one of the Indians’ greatest defeats at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Although Little Turtle of the Miami tribe had led the Indians in their 1790 victory against General Josiah Harmer at Kekionga and in the 1791 massacre of Arthur St. Clair’s troops, Blue Jacket of the Shawnee led...
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