
The battle and the government's findings seemed to many an echo. In 1755 General Edward Braddock led the largest British army that had ever been dispatched to North America in a campaign to seize Fort Duquesne, the French fort at the Forks of the Ohio.

In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force...
