The Battle Of The Wabash || St. Clair's Defeat || US Army's Biggest Defeat
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Published 2023-05-08
The Battle of the Wabash or St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought in 1791 on the Wabash river, near present day Fort Recovery, Ohio. The battle is also reffered as the Battle of a Thousand Slain. It's the US Army's Biggest or worst Defeat in history.
After the end of the American Revolutionary War and the signing the treaty of Paris the British gave recognized United States sovereignty of all the land east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes.
The Native tribes living in the area, however, were not participants to this treaty. Therefore in 1783 these tribes decided to make an alliance. Cherokee, Iroquois, Delaware, Miami, Odawa, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Wabash and Wyandot nations formed The Northwestern Native Confederacy.
Many of them, especially leaders such as Little Turtle - chief of the Miami nation and Blue Jacket - chief of the Shawnee nation, refused to recognize American claims to the area northwest of the Ohio River.
In the coming years American settlers would try to occupy the land but would be in conflict with the Native Americans of the area. The US army tried
to take the land but the Natives, backed by the British, fought on and woudn't give up their homeland.
A series of conflict in the 1780s led up to the battle of the Wabash.
Narration: Dean Moody
www.deantmoodyvoice.com/
Sources:
thehistoriansmanifesto.wordpress.com/2022/03/15/reā¦
www.whatitmeanstobeamerican.org/ideas/the-biggest-ā¦
www.britannica.com/event/Saint-Clairs-Defeat
ohiohistorycentral.org/w/St._Clair%27s_Defeat
armyhistory.org/the-battle-of-the-wabash-the-forgoā¦
www.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/aal/aaā¦
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For those who want to know more there is a book called The Victory With No Name that details the events leading, during, and after this event. This indigenous victory set a marker for several US military habits involving using native scouts and guerilla tactics; mainly ambush formations (L shape) and sign language. Also Little Turtle was considered a respectful ally after this event and was buried under military colors similar to a US Army General.
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I have visited the battlefield site in what is now Fort Recovery in western Ohio. There is an impressive monolith with a statue of a soldier. Under the monolith is the final resting place of hundreds of the dead, whose bones were gathered the following year and buried. The Wabash River was rerouted by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1800ās to build the Ohio/ Erie Canal. Today the river is a shallow stream that is dry.
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Being Welsh with Irish decent I've always had much love and respect for the Native American. We Welsh have lived under a occupying force in one form or another since the Roman Empire turned up..š“ó §ó ¢ó ·ó ¬ó ³ó æš®šŖā¤ļøāļøāļøāļø
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I am from Brazil and have some indiginous blood, feel so proud for all native american nations, and i found their history fascinanting, something about learning about it, just speaks to my soul. Preach for my native american brothers and sisters ā¤
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Could you please do a video on the Seminole wars ?, they are the only āUnconqueredā indigenous nation, who successfully resisted relocation, it would make an awesome video !
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There used to be an outdoor drama called "Blue Jacket" that was performed in SW Ohio. It sadly shut down several years ago, but depicted a lot of this campaign, including the Battle of the Wabash. At the time, they liked to claim that it was the only outdoor drama that featured flaming arrows.
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I'm in my 60's, born and still live in Fort Wayne. Went to school with and best friends with Little Turtles descendants. They're still here. The oldest treaty house east of the Mississippi is about a mile from my house. So much history here.
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My 5th great uncle was Captain Richard " Shawtunte" Sparks, an adoptee of Tecumseh's father. Repatriated with the whites after Pukshinwah's death at the battle of point pleasant in Lord Dunsmores war, he scouted with Chief Piamingo of the Choctaw and William and George Colbert, half Scots, half Choctaw and warned St Clair of the impending doom, but he ignored them. So, gives the choice of dying with St Claire, or going back out to scout, they unanimously chose to go back out scouting. St Claire was a blundering fool. They made it safely to Fort Franklin, modern day Cincinnati area
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I would love to hear more about this Miami tribe.
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No wonder this isn't talked about. Human history is bloody beyond belief. There were no good ole days.
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I am a Miami Indian and remember being often told of this historical Native victory by my tribal elders. Chief Little Turtle is one of my distant ancestors and my 3rd great grandfather, Chief John Bull Mongosa was the last war chief of the Miami Indians in Indiana.
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Brings a whole new meaning to āThe Wabash Cannonballā
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Thanks for making this. Too few know about this battle
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Fascinating. Thank you for narrating and posting this.
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Thanks for making these videos
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Thank you for sharing this video. What America needs is knowledge of the history from many perspectives.
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Great video. Keep them comming!
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I teach US Army Military History for the Boston University Army ROTC Program. I first heard about this battle via The History Guy's video. I show that video in class, so we can discuss the History of that time. And BTW, at one time I lived in Peru, IN and saw the reenactment of the Battle of the Mississinewa (not sure of spelling). My neighbors in Peru gave me their time on the history of the Meshikinsoquah era.
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A perfect example of how a nation buries its unflattering history. I teach history in the Ohio region and have only had two students who had ever heard of this defeat.
