Reports on Failed 1791 Campaign against the Northwestern Indians
Document 1791Knox sends Washington two reports related to the failed 1791 campaign against the northwestern Indians. The first report deals with the efforts to negotiate peace and the preparations for the campaign and the second is a general discussion of relations with the Indians since the end of the Revolutionary War.
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Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Description
Knox sends Washington two reports related to the failed 1791 campaign against the northwestern Indians. The first report deals with the efforts to negotiate peace and the preparations for the campaign and the second is a general discussion of relations with the Indians since the end of the Revolutionary War.
Date
12/26/1791
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1791122600000
Notable persons
George Washington
Henry Knox
hostile Indians
the Executive
northwestern Indians
Arthur St. Clair
Notable locations
War Department
western frontiers of the United States
Great Britain
Notable items
Report A
official documents
measures taken by the Executive to induce the hostile Indians to peace
necessity of using force against them
objects and preparations of the campaign of 1791
explanation of the cause of its failure
Report B
summary review of the conduct of the United States towards the Indians northwest of the Ohio, since our separation from Great Britain
public interests
And it also contains an opinion, delivered with great diffidence, of such further measures as the nature of the case, and the public interests, seem
St. Clair defeat
Battle of Wabash