The Importance of St. Clair’s Defeat

In the fall of 1791, Gen. Arthur St. Clair pushed an unready, ill-trained, and poorly supplied American army of militia and regulars into the woods of central Ohio where it would experience the worst defeat in U.S. military history against Native Americans. The battle belongs to the broader Northwest Indian War, often dated 1785–1795, a conflict in which the United States sought to secure territory north of the Ohio River from the Natives, suppress their outraged raids, and more generally establish federal authority over western expansion. For their part, Native nations sought to preserve their autonomy, land, and security. Undermined

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