Fallen Timbers, Battle of

Fallen Timbers, Battle of
(Aug. 20, 1794) Decisive victory of U.S. Gen.

Anthony Wayne over the northwestern Indian Confederation, securing white settlement of former Indian territory, mainly in Ohio. Wayne led more than 1,000 soldiers to confront the 2,000 Indians, who had been promised British support and who had gathered behind a protective tangle of fallen trees along the Maumee River (near modern Toledo). The Indians, abandoned by the British, fled in disarray. A treaty in 1795 ceded Indian lands to the U.S. and ended British influence in the area.

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      (Aug. 20, 1794), decisive victory of the U.S. general Anthony Wayne (Wayne, Anthony) over the Northwest Indian Confederation, ending two decades of border warfare and securing white settlement of the former Indian territory mainly in Ohio. Wayne's expedition of more than 1,000 soldiers represented the third U.S. attempt (see Saint Clair's Defeat) to eradicate the resistance posed by the Northwest Confederation, comprising the Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Delaware, Ottawa, Chippewa, Iroquois, and other tribes.

      Bolstered by promises of British support, more than 2,000 warriors gathered in mid-June 1794 near Fort Miami on the Maumee River in Ohio, confidently awaiting a confrontation with the advancing U.S. Army. Using ruse and strategy, Wayne directed his well-trained troops against the Indians, who were gathered behind a protective tangle of fallen trees. The army's assault was successful, and the Indians broke in less than two hours and fled. More than by defeat, the Indians' morale was shattered by failure to receive help from the British, who preferred not to risk hostilities with a neutral nation during a time of war against Revolutionary France.

      The fruits of the Battle of Fallen Timbers were claimed at the Treaty of Fort Greenville (Aug. 3, 1795), when the Miami chief Little Turtle, representing the confederation, ceded to the United States most of Ohio and parts of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. The treaty thus gave a great impetus to westward migration and settlement of those areas. Within the next 25 years additional Indian lands north and west of the treaty line were also ceded to the United States. In addition, the treaty ended British influence in the area, facilitating the evacuation of border forts that had been provided for in the Jay Treaty (1794); thus the danger of any British-Indian alliance against the United States was finally eliminated.

      The battle site, about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Toledo, is now an Ohio state park.

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