Supply of Troops at Forts Detroit and Miamis, Indian Relations After Cession of Land by British
Document 1796Anticipation of difficulties supplying forts recently acquired from British, U.S.must supply troops, but good policy and humanity dictated Indians should be supplied as well. Request for the Secretary of the Territory Northwestern of the Ohio accompany Wayne to Detroit to handle the politics regarding the cession of land and Indian relations with U.S.
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Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
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Anticipation of difficulties supplying forts recently acquired from British, U.S.must supply troops, but good policy and humanity dictated Indians should be supplied as well. Request for the Secretary of the Territory Northwestern of the Ohio accompany Wayne to Detroit to handle the politics regarding the cession of land and Indian relations with U.S.
Date
07/22/1796
Author
Recipient
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War Office
Collection
Document number
1796072253500
Note
print doc only
Notable persons
James McHenry
Anthony Wayne
Colonel Kirkpatrick
Colonel Hamtramck
General Wilkinson
Lord Dorchester
British Commandants
troops
garrison
Indians
Scott
Ernest
chiefs
warriors
Indian Nation
Putawatimes
prisoners
Major Doyle
Colonel Meigs
Doctor Richard Allison
Captain Butler
Notable locations
War Office
headquarters
Greene ville
Greeneville
Pittsburgh
posts
Fort Detroit
Fort Miamis
St Mary's
Saint Mary's
St Marys
Fort Washington
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Michilimackinac
Ohio
Northwestern Territory
Notable items
general order
enclosures
supplies
letter
copy
original orders
supplies
daily issues
reports
rations
cavalry horses
approbation
dispatches