The Battle of Fallen Timbers started on Wednesday, August 20, 1794. The battle took place on the lower Maumee River Valley which is the present state of Ohio. Major General Anthony Wayne was encamped with a military force of 3,700 men, 2,000 of whom were part of the regular United States Army. The rest were Kentucky mounted militia. Fighting the Americans were some 2,000 hostile Indians. The Indians were allies of the British and the British had just recently built Fort Miamis. This fort was deep in American Territory, and stopped the Americans from further westward expansion. The tribes facing Wayne and his army were the Miamis, under Chief Little Turtle, the Shawnees under Blue Jacket and the Pottawawatomies, Ottawas, Chippewas, Saulk, Fox, and some Iroquios,…
The Battle of Cowpens was a very significant battle taking place on January 17, 1781. This battle was a huge victory, unexpectedly won giving hope to colonists fighting for freedom. This battle took place in South Carolina on the border of North Carolina and although it seemed small the effect was huge. It has been said that 1000 American soldiers fought off 1100 British soldiers and American Loyalists.…
The Wilderness Campaign included one of the most deadly and gruesome battles in the war, and particularly one of the most confusing. It created the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond. At midnight on May 3, 1864, the Army of the Potomac with about 120,000 men, left their winter camps in Culpeper County in Virginia and marched south toward the Rapidan River fords. Around dawn, Union cavalry splashed across Germanna Ford, conversing the Confederate cavalry pickets and allowing Union engineers to construct two bridges for pontoons. General Gouverneur Warren’s Fifth Corps trotted across the ford at around six in the morning entering a dense, forbid woodland known as the Wilderness.…
I chose to summarize the speech of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s address to General William Henry Harrison. Chief Tecumseh starts his speech by addressing what type of person he is and who he has made himself to by. He is speaking to General Harrison about the division, loss, and sale or Indian lands. He believes the land is provided for everyone not for division among men. He warns of the trouble to be foreseen if village chiefs are continued to be destroyed and the war it will create between the different tribes and the unknown consequences for white people. If boundaries are crossed and the land is not given back it will produce great trouble between the Indians and white people. He asks for pity to be taken upon the red people and explains…
On the Hiwasse River, in approximately 1771, in what is now known as Virgina, a Cherokee woman, who's father was Highland Scot and her mother full Cherokee, gave birth to a baby boy named Ridge. The woman hopped that Ridge would grow to be a strong leader of his people. The Cherokee people were of a matrilineal society. This meant that Ridge's mother and her brothers took the active role of instructing him in the ways of being a hunter. From the time that he was born until the age of five he received instruction, in the town that he lived in with other boys, of how to be a warrior. When he was five a great war broke out between the Indians and whites and his parents decided it best to leave. This war helped give Ridge a glance at what was to come for him and his people. They moved into a cove in the higher mountains, which forced him to stop his training as a hunter so that he could help his family survive. A few years later the war had ended and when he was ten years old his family moved to the town of Chestowee where he resumed his training…
The American Revolution was filled with important and spectacular battles; each having their own significance. Despite the fact that the colonists lost The Battle of Breed’s (Bunker) Hill, it was a huge victory for the colonists, and could have been one of the most important battles of the American Revolution. Despite being out numbered and unseasoned fighters, the colonists were able to inflict heavy casualties on the British regular army. Even though they were able to inflict such casualties upon the British Army, they were forced to surrender when they ran out of gunpowder. The significance of this battle was not that the colonists won or lost, but what was learned in the process. It also established a high level of morale among the colonies and demonstrated to the Americans the power of fighting from behind rocks and trees against better trained British formations. It also showed that Americans desperately needed allies to supply ammunition.…
No matter where you are in Folrida you are never more than 60 miles away from the ocean. Did you know that? I didn’t.…
Insistent that fellow Mingos and their allies, primarily the Shawnee Indians seek vengeance for the murders of his family members. However, Cornstalk, one of the prominent leaders of the Shawnee tribe, continued to use peace. Logan disregarded Cornstalks approach and began attacking the white communities along the frontier. He executed raids in western Pennsylvania, killing the thirteen settlers whose scalp’s he obtained in retaliation15. Subsequently, it is suggested that those raids by Logan culminated Lord Dunmore’s War.…
The treaty was not ratified by a full tribe, being that only a small portion of the Cherokees attended the meeting at New Echota, where Schermerhorn arranged to present the treaty. The Cherokees felt cheated and “tried to block the treaty’s approval in Congress”(Takaki 76). They protested and petitioned against the treaty only to be suppressed by military forces.…
Early in the morning on September 17th, 1862, shots rang out from the cornfields outside of the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. By the time the sun set that evening, 23,000 dead and wounded soldiers from Union and Confederate troops lay on the bloodied fields. Because of this, the Battle of Antietam (also known as the Cornfield and the Battle of Sharpsburg) will go down as the “Bloodiest Day in American History.” No other single day, not even 9/11, will match the pure carnage of this day. Antietam was a crucial battle, not only for the Union army, but also for the Confederates.…
Following its defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Union Army, which was led by Major General William S. Rosecrans, went back to its base at Chattanooga. Reaching the safety of the town, they quickly created defenses before General Braxton Bragg's pursuing Army of Tennessee arrived. Moving his men onto Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the south, Bragg soon commanded the approaches to the city and placed the Union troops under siege.…
Near Springfield, Ohio a great Native American leader Tecumseh was born in march 1768. As a leader of the Shawnee Indians Tecumseh did not accept treaties that had given Indian land to whites. Tecumseh was a powerful speaker who hoped all. Tribes would join together to save Indian lands. Though he wanted peace, Tecumseh did not rule out the use of force. He lost his life in the War of 1812. He was shot by a bullet from an American's…
John Nichols once wrote that “Each person leaves a legacy --a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.” The legacy of William M. Caldwell is composed by his actions during and after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. William Caldwell, despite the stories passed down verbally as to how he watched the Battle of Little Bighorn, unable to help, is untrue.…
Of Infantry at the young age of 18. His first assignment sent him to Cincinnati in the North-West Territory where he would engage in the Northwest Indian War. Harrison became noticed quickly by Military leaders by his strict attention to discipline and received his first promotion as lieutenant and within a year promoted to serve as aide-de-camp. Harrison gained further recognition after participating in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 which marked the successful end of the Northwest Indian War. After the Northwest Indian War ended the Treaty of Greenville was signed by Lieutenant Harrison which opened Ohio for settlement by white…
Gen. Henry Lawton the commander of the Provisionary Regiment of the U.S. army that attacks San Mateo on December 19, 1899. This Regiment was composed of one battalion each of the 27th Infantry Regiment and 29th Infantry Regiment U.S.V, one squadron each of mounted and dismounted 11th Cavalry and of course his bodyguards composed of his staff officers and the troop I4th Cavalry. Their primary mission was to attack San Mateo a small town located about eighteen miles northeast of Manila in the valley of the Marikina River.…