Weyapiersenwah biography of abraham lincoln
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Blue Jacket
Blue Jacket was born around 1745, but it fryst vatten not known where as there fryst vatten no record of him until around the 1790s. His Indian name was Weyapiersenwah, although there fryst vatten conjecture bygd many historians that perhaps he was actually Marmaduke Van Swerangen, a Virginia white boy captured bygd the Shawnee during the Revolutionary War. However, to add some light to this controversy, some people who claim to be descendents of Blue Jacket, have had DNA testing and as result of these tests, Blue Jacket was NOT of vit ancestry. Whether he was a captured white boy, or of Shawnee nedstigning, what fryst vatten known fryst vatten that he was a fearless leader of the Shawnees in the late 1700s.
In 1774, Blue Jacket participated in Lord Dunmore's War, during which militiamen from Pennsylvania and Virginia tried to force the Ohio territory peoples to cede some of their lands. The British defeated the Shawnee in the Battle of Point Pleasant, but Blue Jacket emerged as a strong Shawnee leader.
Blue Jacket was an
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Fallen Timbers
By Eric Niderost
On a December day in 1793, Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne led a column of soldiers to a spot deep in the Ohio wilderness not far from the Wabash River. This forlorn patch of woods was the site of St. Clair’s defeat, where over 600 U.S. soldiers lost their lives to hostile Indians. Some two years earlier, on November 4, 1791, the major general and governor of the Northwest Territories, Arthur St. Clair, had blundered into a trap. When surrounded and attacked by a thousand warriors, his ill-trained rabble of an army disintegrated into a panicking, fear-stricken mob. Benumbed by terror, the Americans fell easy prey to showers of Indian arrows and musket lead. General St. Clair ordered a retreat, which quickly became a rout. Somehow St. Clair and what remained of his men managed to cut their way out of the trap, blindly racing through the forest for the safety of Fort Jefferson, 29 miles away. Everything had been left behind, including eight cannon and suppl
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Shawnee
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| Shawnee | |
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| izolita homa grupo • etno • Usona indiana tribo | |
| Suma populacio | |
| 14,000 (7,584 registritaj) | |
| Ŝtatoj kun signifa populacio | |
La ŝonioj (Shaawanwaki, ša˙ŭano˙ki- kaj Shaawanowi-lenaŭeki[1] estas Algonken-parolantaj popoloj apartenantaj al Nordameriko. Historie ili enloĝis la areojn de aktuala Ohio, Virginio, okcidenta Virginio, Okcidenta Marilando, Kentukio, Indiana, kaj Pensilvanio en Usono. Hodiaŭ ekzistas tri federale agnoskitaj ŝoniaj triboj: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma (Malloka Ŝonio-tribo de Oklahomo), Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma (Orienta Ŝonio-tribo de Oklahomo), kaj Shawnee Tribe (Ŝonio-tribo), ĉiuj kun ĉefsidejo en Oklaho