1783-1845
Early Republic and War of 1812
The new nation expanding westward — Northwest Indian Wars, the Creek War, the War of 1812, and early frontier conflicts.
1,388 engagements recorded
Featured engagements
Notable Early Republic and War of 1812 battles
1774 · WV
Northwest Territory — Battle of Dunmore's War Conclusion 1774
Battle of Point Pleasant (1774) effectively opened Kentucky to settlement by defeating the Shawnee's...
1776 · TN
Battle of Long Island Flats (1776)
The Battle of Island Flats was the opening battle of the American War of Independence in the west. T...
1777 · NY
Battle of Oriskany 1777
The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the Ameri...
1778 · KY
Siege of Boonesborough 1778
The siege of Boonesborough was a military engagement which took place in September 1778 during the A...
1778 · NY
Cherry Valley Massacre 1778
The Cherry Valley massacre occurred on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War as a...
1779 · OH
Fort Laurens — Siege and Skirmishes
The siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 July and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the ...
1779 · NY
Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: Battle of Newtown 1779
The Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779) was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an arm...
1779 · OH
Siege of Fort Laurens
Fort Laurens was the only fortification built within the current boundaries of Ohio during the Ameri...
1780 · OH
Battle of Piqua (1780)
The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and t...
1780 · KY
Battle of Ruddle's Station 1780
In the spring of 1780, the British developed a comprehensive military strategy to retake the Illinoi...
1780 · TN
Battle of Boyd's Creek (1780)
Boyds Creek, located in Sevier County, Tennessee, was the site of the Battle of Boyd's Creek in 1780...
1781 · OH
Battle of Coshocton
Brodhead's Coshocton expedition occurred during the American Revolutionary War in April 1781, when A...
1774
Northwest Territory — Battle of Dunmore's War Conclusion 1774
Battle of Point Pleasant (1774) effectively opened Kentucky to settlement by defeating the Shawnee's last major effort to stop Virginia expansion; considered a ...
WV
1776
Battle of Long Island Flats (1776)
The Battle of Island Flats was the opening battle of the American War of Independence in the west. The battle was fought in July 1776, and pitted the American r...
TN
1777
Battle of Oriskany 1777
The Battle of Brandywine, also known as the Battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American Continental Army of General George Washington and the Br...
NY
1778
Siege of Boonesborough 1778
The siege of Boonesborough was a military engagement which took place in September 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. On September 7, Shawnee chief Bla...
KY
1778
Cherry Valley Massacre 1778
The Cherry Valley massacre occurred on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War as an attack by British and Iroquois forces on a fort and the to...
NY
1779
Fort Laurens — Siege and Skirmishes
The siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 July and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York. Lie...
OH
1779
Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: Battle of Newtown 1779
The Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779) was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by Major General John Sullivan that was ord...
NY
1779
Siege of Fort Laurens
Fort Laurens was the only fortification built within the current boundaries of Ohio during the American Revolutionary War, constructed in the fall of 1778 as pa...
OH
1780
Battle of Piqua (1780)
The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and the Battle of Pickaway, was a military engagement fought on A...
OH
1780
Battle of Ruddle's Station 1780
In the spring of 1780, the British developed a comprehensive military strategy to retake the Illinois Country and attack Spanish outposts on the Mississippi Riv...
KY
1780
Battle of Boyd's Creek (1780)
Boyds Creek, located in Sevier County, Tennessee, was the site of the Battle of Boyd's Creek in 1780, a conflict rooted in the escalating tensions between white...
TN
1781
Battle of Coshocton
Brodhead's Coshocton expedition occurred during the American Revolutionary War in April 1781, when American commanders grew increasingly concerned about the all...
OH
1781
Raid on Sandusky 1781
The Crawford expedition of 1782 was a significant campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, occurring near the conflict's end. Colonel Wi...
OH
1782
Battle of Sandusky (Crawford Expedition)
The Crawford expedition of 1782 was a campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, representing one of the final operations of the conflict....
OH
1782
Crawford's Defeat (Sandusky Expedition)
Crawford's Defeat was one of the most traumatic events on the Ohio frontier. Col. Crawford was tortured for hours at the stake in retaliation for the Gnadenhutt...
OH
1782
Clark's Chillicothe Expedition (1782)
The Battle of Chillicothe was a military engagement of the western theater of the American Revolutionary War. In May 1779, Colonel John Bowman of the Kentucky C...
OH
1782
Battle of Bryan's Station 1782
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States. Bryan, a former Democratic congressman from Nebraska, gained his party's ...
KY
1782
Battle of Blue Licks (August 19, 1782)
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Battle of Blue Licks
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Battle of Blue Licks August 19 1782
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Battle of the Sandusky — Crawford's Defeat
The Crawford expedition, also known as the Battle of Sandusky or Crawford's Defeat, was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War a...
OH
1782
Siege of Bryan's Station (1782)
The second siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260 Wyandot, ...
KY
1782
Crawford's Defeat (Sandusky Campaign)
The Crawford expedition was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War and represented one of the final operations of the conflict. ...
OH
1782
Battle of Upper Sandusky — Crawford's Defeat (1782)
The Crawford expedition was a 1782 campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War and one of the final operations of the conflict. Led by Colon...
OH
1782
Attack on Bryan Station 1782
Bryan Station was an early fortified settlement established in spring 1776 by the Bryan brothers and their brother-in-law from Rowan County, North Carolina, loc...
KY
1782
Battle of Bryan's Station August 16 1782
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States. Bryan, a former Democratic congressman from Nebraska, gained his party's ...
KY
1782
Battle of Turkeyfoot Island (1782)
One of several western Pennsylvania frontier clashes during the Revolutionary War–Indian war overlap period; illustrates the blurred boundary between war period...
PA
1782
Battle of Blue Licks — Ohio context
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Capture of Sandusky Area Villages (1782)
The Crawford expedition of 1782 was a campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War, representing one of the final operations of the conflict....
OH
1782
Crawford's Defeat at Sandusky
The Crawford expedition of 1782 was a campaign on the western front of the American Revolutionary War and one of the final operations of the conflict. Colonel W...
OH
1782
Battle of Blue Licks (Post-Revolution)
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Battle of Blue Licks Aug 19 1782
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Co...
KY
1782
Crawford Expedition – Sandusky Defeat
The Crawford expedition was a 1782 campaign conducted during the western front of the American Revolutionary War, representing one of the final operations of th...
OH
1782
Crawford's Defeat 1782
Crawford's Defeat in June 1782 was a catastrophic defeat for an American militia expedition led by Colonel William Crawford against Delaware and Wyandot warrior...
OH
1783
Newburgh Conspiracy
The Newburgh Conspiracy occurred in March 1783, at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, when leaders of the Continental Army posed a failed apparen...
NY
1784
Raids on Kentucky Settlements (1784–1790)
The years 1784–1790 saw the worst sustained campaign of frontier raiding in US history. The Northwest Confederacy, emboldened by the British refusal to evacuate...
KY
1786
Raid on the Piankashaw Villages (1786)
Part of the early post-Revolutionary frontier campaigns that preceded the formal Northwest Indian War, demonstrating US intent to assert control of the Illinois...
IN
1786
Clark's Shawnee Campaign — Great Miami River (1786)
Clark's 1786 expedition temporarily disrupted Shawnee operations but failed to produce lasting peace.
OH
1786
Clark's Wabash Expedition (1786)
During the onset of the Northwest Indian War (1786–1795), skirmishes around Vincennes in 1786 arose from escalating tensions between American settlers and Nativ...
IN
1786
Logan's Raid on Mackochee
Benjamin Logan's retaliatory raid; killed Shawnee chief Moluntha under flag of truce, causing controversy
OH
1786
Spanish-Comanche Peace Treaty
Since their first contacts with the Spanish in 1706, the Comanches had raided Spanish colonies in New Mexico and Texas, posing a significant threat to their con...
NM
1786
Shays' Rebellion — Shays Assembles at Worcester 1786
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, emerging in response to a severe debt crisis affecting the ...
MA
1786
Logan's Raid on Mackachack
Murder of Moluntha under white flag inflamed Shawnee-American relations and prolonged the border war
OH
1786
Clark's 1786 Wabash Expedition
The skirmishes around Vincennes in 1786 occurred during the opening phase of the Northwest Indian War (1786–1795), a conflict sparked by American settlement exp...
IN
1786
Logan's Raid on Mackachack (1786)
Logan's raid destroyed seven Shawnee towns along the Mad River while most warriors were away. The killing of Chief Moluntha — who was holding a copy of the rece...
OH
1786
Logan's Raid on Shawnee Towns
Logan's raid was a military expedition held in October, 1786 by a Kentucky militia force under Colonel Benjamin Logan against several Shawnee settlements along ...
OH
1786
Burning of Wakatomica 1786
Logan's raid occurred in October 1786 as part of a broader conflict in the Ohio Country between Kentucky militia forces and Shawnee settlements. The raid was en...
OH
1787
Shays' Rebellion — Petersham
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, arising from a debt crisis among the citizenry and in oppos...
MA
1787
Shays' Rebellion — Petersham Surprise
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, arising from a debt crisis among the citizenry and in oppos...
MA
1787
Shays's Rebellion — Battle of Springfield Arsenal 1787
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester that erupted during 1786 and 1787 in response to a debt crisis among the citizenr...
MA
1787
Battle of Dunlap's Creek / Chillicothe 1787
This 1787 skirmish near Chillicothe, Ohio occurred during the period of frontier violence between American settlers and Native American tribes in the Ohio Valle...
OH
1787
Shays' Rebellion — Springfield Arsenal
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester that erupted in 1786 and 1787 in response to a debt crisis affecting the citizenr...
MA
1787
Squaw Campaign / Mad River Raids (1787)
The series of Kentucky militia raids on Shawnee towns along the Mad River in 1787 were part of the sustained cycle of raid and counter-raid that characterized t...
OH
1787
Battle of Sheffield (Shays' Rebellion)
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, arising from a debt crisis among the citizenry and in oppos...
MA
1787
Shays' Rebellion — Springfield Armory Attack
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, rooted in a debt crisis affecting the citizenry and trigger...
MA
1787
Shays' Rebellion — Springfield Arsenal Attack
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester during 1786 and 1787, emerging from a debt crisis among the citizenry and opposit...
MA
1789
Miami Village Raid Prior to Harmar's Expedition (1789)
From 1784 to 1789, considerable violence had erupted between American settlers expanding into Kentucky, along the Ohio River, and at settlements north of the Oh...
IN
1790
Battle of Harmar's Defeat — First Engagement
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat / Battle of the Maumee
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
OH
1790
Harmar's Defeat — First Engagement (October 19, 1790)
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Campaign – Attack on Kekionga October 1790
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of Kekionga (Harmar's Second Defeat)
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of Harmar's Defeat — Second Engagement
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of Fort Hamilton area / Whetzel's Trace Ambushes
The road between Fort Washington (Cincinnati) and Fort Hamilton was one of the most dangerous stretches in America in the early 1790s. Dozens of ambushes along ...
OH
1790
Harmar's Defeat — Second Engagement at Kekionga
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Defeat of Harmar's Second Column 1790
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Northwest Indian War — Harmar's Second Sortie
Harmar's second sortie suffered a more catastrophic ambush than the first; Little Turtle's tactics of feigned retreat then ambush would be used again on St. Cla...
IN
1790
Battle of Miami Town (Kekionga)
The Harmar campaign occurred during a period of escalating tensions in the Northwest Territory following American independence. From 1784 to 1789, considerable ...
IN
1790
Northwest Indian War — Harmar's Expedition — Eel River Action 1790
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Aboite River Skirmish (1790)
One of numerous small engagements around Kekionga (Fort Wayne area) during the buildup to Harmar's Expedition, part of Miami defensive operations.
IN
1790
Northwest Indian War — Adair's Defeat 1790
In 1790, John Hardin led a detachment of Kentucky militia during the Northwest Indian War, a conflict that followed American independence as settlers moved west...
OH
1790
Hardin's Expedition — Pickawillany Raid 1790
Preliminary raid in Harmar's failed Ohio campaign; demonstrated inability of militia to catch mobile Indian forces in the Ohio wilderness.
OH
1790
Little Turtle's First Attack — Colonel Hardin's Detachment
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, and known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat (Ohio 1790)
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat at Kekionga
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of the Maumee Villages — Second Day (Oct 22, 1790)
The Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794) was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a conflict between the Northwestern Confederacy and the United S...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat — Kekionga
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat (Northwest Indian War)
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat — Second Engagement (October 22, 1790)
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of the Maumee Villages — First Day (Oct 19, 1790)
The Battle of Fallen Timbers (20 August 1794) represented the culmination of the Northwest Indian War, a prolonged conflict between the Northwestern Confederacy...
IN
1790
Battle of Harmar's Retreat
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Battle of Kekionga / Harmar's Defeat 1790
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1790
Harmar's Defeat – First Engagement at Chillicothe
The Harmar campaign was an attempt by the United States Army to subdue confederated Native Americans nations in the Northwest Territory that were seen as hostil...
IN
1791
Massacre at Big Bottom (Ohio 1791)
The Big Bottom Massacre on January 2, 1791, marked the beginning of the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country. This conflict emerged from ongoing tensions be...
OH
1791
Massacre at Fort Jefferson
The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, ...
OH
1791
Engagement at Fort Jefferson, Ohio
The siege of Fort Meigs was a significant War of 1812 military engagement in northwestern Ohio during the spring of 1813. British regulars and militia led by Br...
OH
1791
Attack on Dunlap's Station (1791)
The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of Ameri...
OH
1791
Battle of the Wabash (St. Clair's Defeat)
St. Clair's defeat occurred on November 4, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War as part of broader conflict in the Northwest Territory of the United States. Th...
OH
1791
Siege of Fort Jefferson (Northwest Indian War)
The siege of Fort Sackville, also known as the siege of Fort Vincennes or the Battle of Vincennes, was an American Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in p...
OH
1791
St. Clair's Defeat — Initial Attack (Nov 4, 1791)
St. Clair's defeat occurred on 4 November 1791 during the Northwest Indian War in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The battle was part of broader c...
OH
1791
Siege of Fort Jefferson
The siege of Fort Sackville, also known as the siege of Fort Vincennes or the Battle of Vincennes, was an American Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in p...
OH
1791
St. Clair's Defeat / Battle of the Wabash
St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, occurred on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the Unit...
OH
1791
Dunlap's Station Attack (Miami Raid)
The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of Ameri...
OH
1791
Attack on Dunlap's Station 1791
The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of Ameri...
OH
1791
Battle of Wabash (St. Clair's Defeat)
Most costly defeat of U.S. forces by Native Americans; prompted creation of the Legion of the United States under Anthony Wayne
OH
1791
St. Clair's Defeat (Battle of the Wabash, Nov 1791)
St. Clair's defeat remains the most catastrophic defeat of the US Army by Native American forces in history; 900 of 1,400 troops killed or wounded in a single m...
OH
1791
Destruction of the Wea Villages (1791)
Tecumseh's confederacy formed during the early 19th century as a response to United States expansion into Indigenous territories. Following the 1795 Treaty of G...
IN
1791
Attack on Big Bottom Settlement
Following the American Revolutionary War, the United States government began selling land in the Ohio Country, primarily to companies that promised development....
OH
1791
St. Clair's Defeat – Artillery Battery Overrun
St. Clair's defeat occurred on November 4, 1791, as part of the Northwest Indian War in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The battle resulted from t...
OH
1791
Battle of Fort Jefferson 1791
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the ...
OH
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