St. Clair's Defeat: The Indians Massacre of the American Army: The Native American Wars

In the decades between the American Revolution and the American Civil War, the United States government was engaged in an ongoing war against several Native American tribes. Collectively, historians refer to the series of wars between the U.S. government and the American Indians simply as "The Indian Wars," or "The American Indian Wars." The Americans argued that they needed the land west of the Appalachian Mountains for development and settlement, while the various American Indian tribes a...