Siege of Dunlap's Station was a Early Republic and War of 1812 engagement fought in Indiana, 1791. It was an American victory.
On the night of January 10 into January 11, 1791, fighters from the Northwestern Confederacy of American Indians laid siege to Dunlap's Station, one of many clashes in the Northwest Indian War pitting the confederacy against European American settlers pushing into what would become southwestern Ohio. Unlike most engagements of that period, this assault ended in failure for the Indians. It came not long after Harmar's campaign, whose attacks had produced a startling and unprecedented defeat for t
On the night of January 10 into January 11, 1791, fighters from the Northwestern Confederacy of American Indians laid siege to Dunlap's Station, one of many clashes in the Northwest Indian War pitting the confederacy against European American settlers pushing into what would become southwestern Ohio. Unlike most engagements of that period, this assault ended in failure for the Indians. It came not long after Harmar's campaign, whose attacks had produced a startling and unprecedented defeat for the U.S. Army.
Within a few months, however, American forces would again face a crushing loss at Indian hands. The siege itself, occurring only a week after the Big Bottom massacre in what later became southeast Ohio, grew into something larger than its size suggested. For many Ohioans, the episode came to symbolize the belief that Native Americans had subjected innocent settlers to torture.
Long before the conflict itself, native communities of the northeastern woodlands had spent generations improvising and struggling to endure whatever pressures came their way. Yet by 1690, as the record shows, the Iroquois and their allies had pushed many of the region's eastern native peoples from their homes. Meanwhile, settlers of European descent kept pressing into Indian lands, often holding deeds or grants to parcels in the Ohio Country that had been bought or bestowed upon them, a situation that inevitably put them at odds with the tribes already established there.
It was in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War that the Northwest Indian War erupted, and communities stationed at frontier posts north of the Ohio found themselves especially vulnerable to Indian raids.
Robin Leanne Wiete's novel When Morning Comes came out through Penguin Group (Canada) in 1993, running 384 pages under ISBN 978-0451403360.
A separate reference turns up in Indian-Artifact Magazine, volume 14-3, page 5, where the battle forms part of a narrative touching on Tecumseh and other figures.
Allan W. Eckert also brings up the engagement in his 1992 work The Life of Tecumseh, citing it on page 407 and in note 381.
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