... Little Turtle Blue Jacket Little Billy Jish-ge-ge or Katy-did an insect also called The War Chief died December 28 1834 at Buffalo Creek New York at a very advanced age He was one of the Indian guides who accompanied Washington on his mission to Fort Duquesne during the old French and Indian war Fourth Destroy-Town Go-non-da-gie meaning he destroys the town was noted for the soundness of his ...
... Little Turtle and Tecumseh That was the real close of the Revolution and it ended in Ohio on whose soil it had begun twenty years before at the battle of Point Pleasant between Cornstalk and Lewis The truth of history is that there was more of the revolution on Ohio soil than there was on the soil of many of the New England states It lasted here a score of years three times as long as was suffered by the more pretentious settlements in the ...
... WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST WHAT WE OWE TO THE PAST BY NEVIN 0 WINTER The student of history is generally attracted by events which occurred at some remote place It is another illustration of distance lending enchantment In Europe I have seen Americans tramping over the scenes of battles which had no significance in the world's history They were simply scenes of conflicts between rival factions in local disturbances Some of these same Americans have passed by battlefields near their own homes ...
... THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE THE SALE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE AT the beginning of the Revolutionary War the State of Connecticut claimed the strip of land lying within her charter limits forty-one degrees and forty-two degrees two minutes north latitude extending from the Delaware River to the Mississippi River The State of Pennsylvania also claimed so much of this strip as lay within her charter limits that is east of a meridian line five degrees west of the Delaware A bitter controversy ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly ...
... Miamis and Shawnees met The preliminary treaty with General Wayne at Greenville Ohio in which there was an armistice was the forerunner of the celebrated treaty which was concluded at the same place on August 3 1795 A great deal of opposition was manifested to this treaty by the more warlike and turbulent chiefs as this would cut off their forays on the border settlements Chief Tarhe always lived true to the treaty obligations which he so ...
... Miami Indians at Pickawillany in Ohio before 1750 and this fort may have been the first fort built by white men in Ohio It is certain none of the Sandusky forts were It is not improbable that the site of Nicolas's village and fort was identical with that of Junundat the Ayonontout of the French DeLery gives its name as Aniauton or Anioton This was also the name of another Huron chief an ally of Nicolas and the village probably took its name ...
... Miami and Mad Little Turtle who Little Turtle chief of the Little Turtle Tribe of Red Men an order which was named after the red man have been invited to assist and participate upon this occasion And indeed you have cause to wonder from the fact as I have said that we were named after ...
... Miamis and the Wabash Miamis was on its way Miami crossing the Ohio Miami Valley in November 1 782 with one thousand and fifty mounted riflemen The Indians fell back before this force - towns and supplies were destroyed McKee tried to come to the aid of his Indian friends but his forces ...
... Miami valleys The word Miami thence to the Wabash and then to the Illinois They would have gained but a few short years because the land grabbers would have followed them clear across the Middle West The tide of white immigration could be stayed by armed force -- by no other means Tecumseh Logan Cornstalk Black Fish and the other chiefs realized this The war hatchet 88 Ohio Arch 88 Ohio ...
... Little Turtle was their Little Turtle as a warrior was known and honored by all the distinguished men of his day but never as a scholar as James McDonald To Mrs W C Miller Regent of the John Reily Chapter D A R and her associates the Mrs C W Gath Lou Beauchamp and Charles Huntington must be given the credit of the preservation and restoration of the last relic of Fort Hamilton To O M Bake ...
... Miami Valley to Old Chillicothe the Indian stronghold of the Shawanese The Indian town was burned and much devastation wrought in the land of the redmen but the expedition was compelled to return leaving the fierce forest warriors in no degree daunted or crippled The expedition was not without its effect however for it checked in another quarter the movements of the British and Indians Captain Henry Bird following the abandonment of Fort ...
... Miami Valley to Old Chillicothe the Indian stronghold of the Shawanese The Indian town was burned and much devastation wrought in the land of the redmen but the expedition was compelled to return leaving the fierce forest warriors in no degree daunted or crippled The expedition was not without its effect however for it checked in another quarter the movements of the British and Indians Captain Henry Bird following the abandonment of Fort ...
... Miami rivers Not only did the Assembly reject the request on the ground of liberty to all but fortified themselves with that provision in the compact which insured freedom to all in the Territory The subject came up but once again at a subsequent session only to receive a decisive refusal forever precluding any hopes of changing the will of the people on this subject This first session of the Territorial Assembly passed thirty laws many of ...
... Miami Indians and two years later was appointed one of the Judges of the new territory Judge Armstrong resigned after a few months' service on the bench He was born in Carlisle Pennsylvania and at the beginning of the Revolutionary war was a student at Princeton College which he left to join the American Army It is charged that while he was in the army he wrote the celebrated Newburg letters for the purpose of increasing the discontent already ...
... Miami to the source Miami Such a line LittleMiami is the Ludlow line Such an error is unpardonable in a writer of history Still such are continually made Justin Winsor in his Critical and Narrative History of The United States puts Fort Ancient among the forts built to resist Indian ...