sive operations, are discharged, and the army go into winter quartess at Fort Greenville in the fall of 1793, 291; Fifteen hundred mounted volunteers join General Wayne in 1794, 293; The Indians attack Fort Recovery, and are de- feated by Major McMahan, 293; Erection of Fort Defiance, 293; General Wayne marches against the Indians, 293; sends a message to offer peace, 293; Little Turtle advices to accept the proposals, 295; Offer rejected, 295; General Wayne advances, 295; The battle at the Rapids, add total overthrow of the whole Indian army, 296; Correspondence between General Wayne and the com- mandant of the British Fort, 299; The Indians sue for peace, and a treaty en- tered into with them at Greenville, 300; Cession to the United States of four- fifths of Ohio, 300; The effects of Wayne's treaty, General Wayne's death, his The United States establish agencies among the Indians after the victory of General Wayne, 302; The North Western Territory established, and W. H. Harrison appointed Governor, 302; He makes thirteen treaties with the Indians, in one of which he secures 51,000,000 of acres of land, 302; The Delawares and Shawanese object to the treaty, which is finally ratified, 363; Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, establish a new religion among the Indians, and conceive a plan to unite all the tribes against the whites, 303; Governor Harrison makes a treaty for more land in 1303, 304; Tecumseh and the Prophet oppose it, and concentrate a band of warriors on the Wabash, 304; Governor Harrison invites Tecumseh to Vincennes to hold a council, 306; He apperrs with 300 warriors, the council ends without any conciliation, 310; Governor Harrison marches to Declaration of War against Great Britain, June 18th, 1812, 320; Gov. Hull arrives at Detroit, at the head of 2500 men, 321; Determines to invade Canada, 322; Col. McArthur takes possession of the valley of the Thames, 323; Col. Cass' battle at Aux Canards, 324; Attack upon Major Vanhorn, at Brownstown, 324; Brilliant victory of Col. Miller, at Magagua, 324; Hull orders Fort Chi- cago to be evacuated, 325; Defeat and massacre of the garrison, 325; He re- treats to Detroit, 325; His inglorious surrender, 325; An army raised to retake Detroit, 325; General Harrison appointed commander-in-chief, 325; Gallant defence of Fort Harrison, by Captain Zachary Taylor, 325; Expedition of Gen. Hopkins, and its failure, 326; The successful expedition of Gov. Edwards and Col. Russell to the Peoria Indian towns, 327; The successful Expedition of Gen. Hopkins and Col. Butler, to the Prophet's town, 328; Gen. Tupper's battle with the Indians, 328; The Mississinne wa Expedition, 328. of January, 333; Arrival of Proctor with fifteen hundred men, 334; Desperate battle and final surrender of the Americans, 335; Horrid massarre of the pris- oners, 335; Siege and successful defence of Fort Meigs by General Harrison, 336; Major Croghan's gallant defence of Fort Stephenson, 337; Perry's victory - on Lake Erie, 337; Battle of the Thames and victory of the American army under General Harrison, over the combined British and Indian army under Proc- Treaties made with the Indians after the battle of the Thames, in which sev- eral millions of acres of lands are ceded to the United States, 345; The number of Indians in 1820, in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, 346; Treaty of 1823, 345; Murder of M. Methode and family, 346; Imprisonment of Red Bird, Black Hawk and others, 346; Murders on Indian creek, 346; Black Hawk war, 347; Defeat of Black Hawk, 348; Black Hawk deposed, 349. INDEX. A. America discovered, page 18. Allegheny river, Delaware and Shawa- Armstrong's expedition against Kittan- Artbur St. Clair, 271; appointed Gov- B. Beeson Henry, settles at Uniontown,44. 91. Braddock Edward appointed comman- Gov. Morris, 98; sends St. Clair and Beaujen M. de, a captain in the French Bucher Conrad John Rev. 129. held, 92; he proceeds to Frederick-Bradstreet Col. to fight the Wyandotts, Ottowas and Chippewas, 165. 96; marches to Fort Cumberland, 93; Badinger George M.231. Brodhead's campaign, 200. Byrd Col. a British officer, 235. C. Columbus Chris., discovered America Cornstalk, a warrior, 184, 185; is killed, Cabot, Sebastian and George, 19. Calvert founds Maryland, 23. Drake Francis, his voyage, 19. De La Salle, commander of Frontinac, Dancing, an amusement among early De Villiers, French commander in the Charter, Penn obtains one for Penn-Du Quesne Fort, expedition against, sylvania, 25. Chester, first settlers of Pennsylvania 93, 134; abandoned by the French, Dumas, a French officer at Braddock's Dytoquarioan, Indian, fought under Du Quesne Capt., a British officer, 225. 257. Denny Governor, his message on the French abandoning Fort Du Quesne, Celeron Louis, deposites leaden plates, Croghan George and Indians, rejected Captina creek, murders committed on, Crawford's fort, 195. Campbell Lieutenant, 287, 296. Crawford's campaign, 209; he is taken Darke Colonel, a revolutionary officer, E. Era, a new one in navightion, 2. French settle in Canada, and along the Granville, Sir Richard makes a settle- ment, 19. ries held councils with the natives, Gallisoniere Marquis, Governor of the Great West, 29, 30; Governor Gist Christopher an early settler, 40; accompanies Geo. Washington to Le sent out agents to conciliate the In-ty, 73. dians, 30, 32; explore Allegheny and Great Meadows, 73, 75. Ohio, 34; deposite plates, 35; erec-Gage Lieut. Col. acting under Brad- their movements indicate hostile in Great Cove inhabitants massacred, 119. rangements to arrest their progress, 64; the French approach the forks Grant's defeat, 137, 139. 150, 151. 182. of Monongahela and Allegheny, and Gladwin Major commanded at Detroit, doned the Lakes, 144, 147. Floyd John Colonel, 238. H. Fort Pitt erected, 145,; was in a criti-Hollanders frustrated in their attempts to 72. Loyalbanna, 136, 137; sends Wash-Helaquantagechty a chief, 33. Half-King accompanies Washington, Haviland Col. 146. Forts, chain of, erected along the Kit-Hamilton surrendered Fort Kaskaskia titanny hills, 119; Fort Littleton, to Col. Clarke, 220; determined to |