1. The French were able to get along with the Indians, why couldn’t the Americans?

2. Indians vs. Illinois

3. Vocab War of Attrition Rout
A war fought where the victor is decided by who has more resources over time
Rout
A complete loss where your forces are retreating with out orders

4. Chief Pontiac United three Indian tribes in the Great Lakes area
Fought with the French in the French and Indian War
Wished to be respected by the British and have a trade relationship like the one he had with the French

6. Pontiac continued
Following the French and Indian war Pontiac refused to surrender
Fought the British for two years, delaying settlement of Illinois

7. The Pontiac Conspiracy
Coordinated the attack of 12 British forts from the Great Lakes to lower Mississippi
8 of the 12 Forts were taken
Pontiac almost took Fort Detroit but was sold out
Pontiac lost the war of attrition and surrendered in 1766

8. General Harmar vs. Little Turtle
1790 General Harmar sent to end the Indian threat in Ohio
Leads some regulars and some inexperienced men
Harmar goes on a warpath burning villages through Ohio while families retreat
Little Turtle ambushes a detachment of Harmar’s force

9. Harmar sends a detachment after Little Turtle Men were ambushed again
Men rout
Some as far as the Ohio River
Harmar lost 183 men

10. St. Clair’s Defeat
Governor St. Clair leads an army trying to force Little Turtle into a surrender
Army was surrounded and had to fight their way out and back to the fort
630 Dead
“The ground was literally covered with the dead”

11. Battle of Fallen Timbers
Mad Wayne Anthony finally achieves a solid victory against Little Turtle
Had better trained and more disciplined army
Forces the Treaty of Greenville

12. Treaty of Greenville
Takes land in the North West Territories from the Indians
Gives annual payments to the tribes moved
Payments stopped quickly
“as long as the woods grow and the waters run”
Supposed to create a lasting peace