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In 1791, Basic Arthur St. Clair led the United States Army in a advertising campaign to demolish a complex of Indian villages at the Miami River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their goal, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about 1,000 Indians. The U.S. power was decimated, suffering nearly a thousand casualties in killed and wounded, while Indian casualties numbered only a few dozen. But regardless of the lopsided end result, it wouldn't appear to carry much significance; it involved only a few thousand people, lasted less than three time, and the outcome, which was never in hesitation, was completely reversed a mere three years later. Neither an epic have difficulties nor a clash that evolved the span of history, the battle doesn't have even a name. Yet, as renowned Local American historian Colin Calloway demonstrates here, St. Clair's Defeat - as it came to be known - was greatly important for its time. It had been both the biggest success the Native People in the usa ever earned, and, proportionately, the biggest military disaster the United States had suffered. Using the British in Canada sitting on the sidelines for the American experiment in republicanism to fail, and some regions of the West gravitating toward alliance with Spain, the beat threatened the very existence of the newborn United States. Creating a deluge of studies, correspondence, views, and debates in the press, it produced the first congressional analysis in American history, while in the end changing not only the manner in which People in the usa viewed, raised, structured, and payed for their armies, but the very ways in which they fought their wars. Emphasizing the scope to that your battle has been overlooked ever sold, Calloway illustrates how this second of great success by American Indians became an aberration in the nationwide storyline and a bare spot in the nationwide memory.
