Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West

The Forgotten Story of the Crucial Indian War That Led to the Creation of the U.S. Army

In Autumn of the Black Snake, William Hogeland presents the overlooked tale of how the newly independent United States found itself losing a military conflict on its borderlands in the years following the Revolutionary War. In 1791, a confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians inflicted the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, thi...