Hello and welcome to a history of the United States. Episode 178.

The Treaty of Greenville.

Last time out, we looked at the Yazoo land sale, where a corrupt Georgia legislature, undid both a presidential proclamation and the Treaty of New York to illegally sell 15 million acres of creek land, covering most

of modern Alabama and Mississippi, to speculators calling themselves the zoo companies.

This serves as a microcosm of federal Indian policy, in that the main benefit was allowing

those in the federal government to sleep

easy at night, while having nothing to do with what was actually going on along the frontier.

And so, for this final episode on our mini-series on the Westwood expansion, I want to focus

on the northern frontier. And it should, given all we've talked about over the lastwood expansion, I want to focus on the northern frontier, and it should, given

all we've talked about, hope the last few episodes, be depressingly familiar. Depressingly familiar,

of course, being at this podcast's tagline. We'll begin by introducing our full main characters,

the American Fritzeman, the Indians, the federal government, and

Britain. All four will be reprising their familiar roles. The frontiersmen will continue

to move into Indian land beyond those agreed treaties in a desolately manner. The Indians will raid

American settlements, the federal government will try and restore order so they can expand in an orderly manner, and the British will raid American settlements, the federal government will try and restore order

so they can expand in an orderly manner, and the British will try and stir the part to provoke

conflict while falling short of backing the Indians militarily. We'll pick up the story in 1790,

when continued friction between the American settlers and the Indians forced the federal government into authorising a military expedition.

Led by Josiah Harmore, 300 regulars and 1,200 militia march from Fort Washington, the modern Cincinnati, to where is now Fort Wayne, Indiana.

They burned several Miami and Shawnee villages, but suffered equal losses to the Indians with about 200 dying on each side. This was

embarrassing for the federal government, and next year, the situation escalated. In 1791, a new force was gathered by Arthur St. Clair,

the governor of the Northwest Territory. This was a large force, relying more on regulars and

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