Bedford Public Library Lecture: Lecture 1: The Ohio Campaign

“The Hundred Years War: a Century of Native American Resistance, 1790-1890.”
6-part series
Part 1: 1/27/2019

Most Americans have some awareness of the disastrous effects of advancing white settlement on the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but the persistence and determination of native American attempts to slow or halt that advance are less well-known. We will try to tell the story of some examples of that resistance, beginning with the Ohio campaigns of the 1790s and ending with the Apache War of the 1880s

Jan. 27 The Ohio Campaign
In its first major conflict after the Revolution, the infant United States Army suffers a series of disastrous defeats at the hands of the Shawnee and their allies–and in the process, encounters one of the most brilliant of all its foes, Tecumseh.