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Harmar's Defeat

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Kekionga · Indiana

Estimated casualties

130 – 200estimated dead

About 129-183 U.S. soldiers and militia killed; Native losses far lighter.

SOURCEWikipedia: Harmar's Defeat

In October 1790, a U.S. expedition under General Josiah Harmar against the Miami town of Kekionga was routed by Native forces under Little Turtle and Blue Jacket, an early disaster of the Northwest Indian War.

Belligerents2

United States
Northwestern Confederacy

ON THE MAPUnited States (1790)

Conflict graph

PART OFNorthwest Indian War

Sources

Wikipedia: Harmar's Defeat
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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