CESSIONS OF INDIAN TERRITORY IN INDIANA, 1795–1810. _1. Tract ceded by Treaty of Greenville, August 3rd, 1795._ _2. Tract about Fort Wayne, ceded by the same Treaty._ _3. Two miles square on the Miami portage, ceded by the same Treaty._ _4. Six miles square at Old Wea Town on the Wabash, ceded by the same Treaty._ _5. Clark’s Grant on the Ohio, reserved by the same Treaty._ _6. Vincennes tract, reserved by the same Treaty._ _7. Tract ceded by Treaties of August 18th and 27th, 1804._ _8. Tract ceded by Treaty of August 21st, 1805._ _9, 10, 11. Tracts ceded by Treaty of September 30th, 1809._ _12. Tract ceded by Treaty of December 9th, 1809._ CHAPTER IV. ALTHOUGH no one doubted that the year 1812 was to witness a new convulsion of society, if signs of panic occurred they were less marked in crowded countries where vast interests were at stake, than in remote regions which might have been thought as safe from Napoleon’s wars as from those of Genghis Khan. As in the year 1754 a petty fight between two French and English scouting parties on the banks of the Youghiogheny River, far in the American wilderness, began a war that changed the balance of the world, so in 1811 an encounter in the Indian country, on the banks of the Wabash, began a fresh convulsion which ended only with the fall of Napoleon. The battle of Tippecanoe was a premature outbreak of the great wars of 1812. Governor William Henry Harrison, of the Indiana Territory, often said he could tell by the conduct of his Indians, as by a thermometer, the chances of war and peace for the United States as estimated in the Cabinet at London. The remark was curious, but not surprising. Uneasiness would naturally be greatest where least control and most irritation existed. Such a region was the Northwestern Territory. Even the spot where violence would break out might be predicted as somewhere on the waterline of the Maumee and the Wabash, between Detroit at one extremity and Vincennes at the other. If a guess had been ventured that the most probable point would be found on that line, about half way between Lake Erie and the Ohio River, the map would have shown that Tippecanoe Creek, where it flowed into the Wabash, corresponded with the rough suggestion.