Bibliograph

Field of corpses, Arthur St. Clair and the death of an American army, Alan D. Gaff

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Field of corpses, Arthur St. Clair and the death of an American army, Alan D. Gaff

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Field of corpses

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Alan D. Gaff

Sub title

Arthur St. Clair and the death of an American army

Summary

November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair's army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair's force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans-a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation's history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington's first administration, which had been in office for only two years

Target audience

adult

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