Download or read book The Battle of the Wabash a Study of the Effects of Logistics During General Arthur St Clair s Campaign Against the Indians in the Old Northwest Territory 1791 written by Timothy A. Nehls and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wabash 1791 written by John F. Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Wabash, or St. Clair's Massacre, was the greatest defeat of the American Army by Native American forces. The campaign opened in 1791, when an newly formed American Army, under the command of Revolutionary War hero, Arthur St. Clair, set off into the wilderness of Ohio in an effort to wrest control of the Northwest Territory from the various native tribes. Plagued by logistical problems, bad weather, and native ambushes, the expedition dragged on for months as the American army slowly eroded due to injury, sickness, and desertion. Then, on a cold November day, an allied Native army descended on the Americans. In the ensuing chaos, the Americans were slaughtered, taking over 90% casualties. In this book, author John F. Winkler, re-examines this one-sided victory, analyzing what the American's did wrong and how the Natives achieved a victory that they could never repeat.
Download or read book Wabash 1791 written by John F. Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Wabash, or St. Clair's Massacre, was the greatest defeat of the American Army by Native American forces. The campaign opened in 1791, when an newly formed American Army, under the command of Revolutionary War hero, Arthur St. Clair, set off into the wilderness of Ohio in an effort to wrest control of the Northwest Territory from the various native tribes. Plagued by logistical problems, bad weather, and native ambushes, the expedition dragged on for months as the American army slowly eroded due to injury, sickness, and desertion. Then, on a cold November day, an allied Native army descended on the Americans. In the ensuing chaos, the Americans were slaughtered, taking over 90% casualties. In this book, author John F. Winkler, re-examines this one-sided victory, analyzing what the American's did wrong and how the Natives achieved a victory that they could never repeat.
Download or read book Battle of a Thousand Slain written by Rick M. Schoenfield and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Battle of a Thousand Slain, Rick Schoenfield takes a fresh look at the worst defeat in American military history, an attempt to take the Northwest Territory from the native tribes who lived there. He presents newly uncovered details and offers new interpretations of one of the most important but least understood battles in American history.
Download or read book The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves written by Rick M Schoenfield and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Wabash River near present-day Fort Recovery, Ohio, on November 4, 1791, the Maumee Confederation of Indigenous tribes destroyed a superior American army led by Revolutionary War veteran General Arthur St. Clair. The victory was so complete, that the Shawnee recalled that the "the ground was covered with the dead and the dying." Also known as "St. Clair's Defeat" and "The Battle With No Name"--since the US forces did not know where they were--the Battle of the Wabashwas the United States military's worst disaster in the history of the Indian wars. This, despite the army having artillery and outnumbering the confederation warriors by almost two to one. It was both the new Republic's first war and its first undeclared war. Ordered on the offensive by President George Washington in an attempt to exert control of the frontier, the defeat triggered the first Congressional investigation and the first assertion of executive privilege. Often overlooked is thatno other Native American battle in three centuries, from colonial times to Geronimo, affected somany lives. The Maumee Confederation's victory largely stymied American expansion into the rest of the Northwest Territory, and ultimately into the Great Plains for almost four years. For the Native Peoples this was a respite from the incessant deforestation that accompanied western settlements. While Ohio and the rest of the Old Northwest ultimately succumbed to US control, President James Madison would later warn his fellow Americans that the unchecked destruction of the natural environment was as much of a threat to national security as any enemy along its borders. The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves: The Battle of the Wabash, The United States' Greatest Defeat in the Wars Against Indigenous Peoples by Rick M. Schoenfield places this important war into its cultural, racial, economic, and political context. For the first time, the ecological impact is explored, for at stake in the clash between Woodland Native Americans and white, agrarian settlement, was the fate of a vast forest eco-system. The issue echoes today in the debate over climate change, deforestation, and indigenous control of forest habitats. Based on primary sources, some of which are consulted here for the first time, including a newly discovered muster roll and the recent archaeological study of the battlefield, the author provides the most accurate description of the battle while capturing the drama of what occurred. He also critically examines the information gathering, planning, and tacticsof both the Maumee Confederation and the United States, from the conception of the campaign through the battlefield decisions. By skillfully weaving together the disparate but related parts of the larger history of this battle, The Soldiers Fell Like Autumn Leaves allows the reader to better understand the motivations and long-term consequences of the war against Native peoples in the Americas.
Download or read book The Battle of the Wabash Or St Clair s Disaster 4 November 1791 written by George F. Nafziger and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains a copy of the "Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians in the Year 1791 was conducted under the Command of Major General St. Clair" that is, an account of the general's courtsmartial, as well as an account of the battle drawn from other sources.
Download or read book Field of Corpses written by Alan D. Gaff and published by Knox Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alan Gaff, author of the highly acclaimed Bayonets in the Wilderness, comes the real story of this stunning defeat against the Native American nations in the Northwest Territory. In three hours on the morning of November 4, 1791, General Arthur St. Clair lost one half of his soldiers as well as his reputation. November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair’s army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair’s force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation’s history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington’s first administration, which had been in office for only two years.
Download or read book Arthur St Clair to Henry Knox about War with the Indians 15 September 1788 written by Arthur St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory, remarks on war with the Indians: In my public letter of this day I have taken the Liberty to mention my Ideas on the manner in which a War should be carried on against the Indians- I do most sincerely wish it may not be necessary tho were it not for the State of public affairs, it would be both more reputable and little more expensive than the present dubious situation, when presents must be made them, and expenses incurred that would go a good Way in a Campaign against them, and, were it conducted with prudence and vigor would, set us at rest. Comments on the military leadership needed to launch a campaign against the Indians: ... if the Ragamuffins of Militia are to command, I have seen few in my life that would be fit for it... it is of very great Consequence that the Government get into motion with as few external embarrassments as possible. Refers to the qualifications of key military leaders in the west, such as General [Josiah] Harmar, [John] Doughty, and [John] Hamtramck. Praises Alexander Hamilton. Discusses the possibility of gaining more land for the Territory in the future.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians in the Year 1791 Was Conducted Under the Command of Major General St Clair written by Arthur St. Clair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Narrative of the Manner in Which the Campaign Against the Indians, in the Year 1791, Was Conducted Under the Command of Major General St. Clair: Together With His Observations on the Statements of the Secretary of War and the Quarter Master General, Relative Thereto, and the Reports of the Committees Appointed to Inquire Into the Causes of the Failure Thereof BE IT remembered, That on the thirmemh dageouugust, in the my, seventh year of the Independence of the United States America, A. D. 1812. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Download or read book Various Documents Related to Arthur St Clair s 1791 Western Expedition written by Joseph Nourse and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copies of documents written by various persons related to Arthur St. Clair's failed 1791 Western expedition. Pages 1-5 contain the copy of a report written 10 January 1793 by Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury. Discusses the enlistment of levies and the debts and rations owed to officers who participated in the March of the Army from Fort Washington into the Indian Country. Pages 6-7 contain letters from General Arthur St. Clair and Josiah Harmar to Henry Knox, Secretary of War. Page 6 contains a preface to the correspondence: The report states the delay of furnishing the estimates for passing the Act for the protection of the frontiers as part of one of the causes of the failure of the expedition. St. Clair's letter to Knox was written 6 November 1790 at Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Harmar's letter was written 4 November 1790 at Fort Washington. Pages 7-9 contain excerpts from various correspondence related to the expedition and injustice being done the public service by the recruiting officers of the levies. George Washington comments on recruits in a 29 July 1791 letter to Henry Knox: It is a very good body of men, and many old officers with them, and very genteel men. Pages 10-13 are partially illegible, but contain the comments of Samuel Hodgdon, Quartermaster General, on provisions related to the expedition. Letterpress copy.
Download or read book Causes of the Failure of the Expedition Against the Indians in 1791 Under the Command of Major General St Clair written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Defeat of the Army Expedition Commanded by Major General St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians was Conducted Under the Command of Major General St Clair written by Arthur St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Causes of the Failure of the Expedition Against the Indians in 1791 Under the Command of Major General St Clair written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Further Consider the Causes of the Failure of the Expedition Under Major General St. Clair and the Petition of Samuel Hodgdon and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
Download or read book King of Battle written by Boyd L. Dastrup and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staff Ride Handbook for the Saratoga Campaign 13 June to 8 November 1777 written by Steven E. Clay and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Staff Ride Handbook for the Saratoga Campaign systematically analyzes this strategically important Revolutionary War campaign. This handbook is one in a number of works from the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) designed to facilitate staff rides for US Armed Forces personnel. Unlike its predecessors, Saratoga is the first handbook that covers a Revolutionary War campaign. Additionally, this book provides users an opportunity to conduct a staff ride that focuses both on the operational and tactical levels of war but is flexible enough that it can be conducted on one or the other level as well.--Provided by publisher.
