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CHAPTER VI.
THE INDIAN WAR - 1790 TO 1795
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Primary Causes of the War - Preparations for a Treaty -
The Treaty Made at Fort Harmar in January, 1789 - Attack
on the Ohio Company's Surveying Party - The Colony at
Big Bottom - Murder of the Settlers - Two Men Elude the
Indians and Warn the neighboring Settlements - The
Colony Formed at Olive Green in 1794 - The Indian
Silver-hells - Wayne's Victory.
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formed for his country. He died in December, 1796, on
board a vessel in Lake Erie, while returning from the Indian
country to Philadelphia.
Wayne’s victory and the subsequent treaty secured
permanent peace with the Indians on Ohio soil, extinguished the
last vestige of Indian title to the lands now forming the
eastern and southern parts of the State, prepared the way for
immigration, which soon began pouring its ceaseless stream into
the Ohio Valley, finally resulting in the opening of the great
Northwest to the influences of civilization, the upbuilding of
great cities and states and the development of the greatest
agricultural region in the world.
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