The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and BeyondOgg, Frederic Austin
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The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond
Ogg, Frederic Austin
Northwest, Old -- History; Ohio River Valley -- History
Cadillac, see La Mothe-Cadillac.
Cahokia, Pontiac at, 18; school for Indians at, 30; under English, 31;
taken by Clark, 48, 55; British try to seize, 69.
Caldwell, Captain, 71.
Campbell, Colonel, British commandant at Detroit, 6.
Campus Martius, fortification in Ohio, 81.
Canada passes to British control, 1.
Carver, Jonathan, 12.
Cass, Lewis, statesman of the Northwest, 183; life, 184-186; Governor of
Michigan, 190; expedition into Mississippi regions, 190-191; aids
against Indians, 196.
Cass Lake, 191.
Chartres, Fort, French commandant sends message to Indians, 14; Pontiac
at, 17; "center of life and fashion," 30; after cession to English, 31;
Saint-Ange commands, 33; Croghan invited to, 35; Sterling reaches, 36.
Chillicothe (O.), 100.
Chouteau, Pierre, 32-33.
Cincinnati, named, 82; migration to, 99; legislature in, 131; education,
171.
Clark, G. R., in Illinois country, 48; life and character, 48-49;
delegate to Virginia Assembly, 49; proposes capturing British posts, 50;
commissioned by Virginia council, 51; expedition, 51-56; at Kaskaskia,
59-60, 60-61; expedition to Vincennes, 61-66; plans expedition against
Detroit, 67; failure of plan, 68; later life and death, 68; expedition
against Miami towns, 71; agreement of 1785 with Indians, 79.
Clay, Henry, 164, 205.
Cleaveland, Moses, 99.
Columbus (O.), Cumberland Road reaches (1833), 166.
Continental Congress claims Northwest, 71.
Corydon (Ind.), capital removed from, 177 (note).
Croghan, George, 34-36.
Cumberland Gap, 102.
Cumberland Road, 165-168, 178.
Cutler, Dr. Manasseh, 80-81, 82.
Cuyahoga River, Pontiac halts English at, 3.
D.
Davis, Jefferson, 201, 203, 204.
Dearborn, Fort, 149, 152, 153.
Deckhard rifle, 120.
Defiance, Fort, 92, 94.
Detroit, occupied by French, 2-3; surrenders to English, 4; in 1760,
4-5; Pontiac plans destruction of, 11; council with Indians at, 17;
Clark plans attack, 67-68; British refuse surrender, 83; Wayne obtains
cession of Indian land near, 95; garrison at, 152; Hull's expedition for
relief of, 153; growth, 193.
Douglas, S. A., statesman of Northwest, 183; life, 184-187.
Duquesne, Fort, see Pitt, Fort.
E.
East Florida, province provided in Proclamation of 1763, 24, 24 (note),
33; plan for Spain to resume possession, 73.
Education in Northwest, 129-130, 170-171.
Erie Canal opened (1825), 102, 176.
Erie, Lake, French settlement on, 2-3; Perry's victory on, 154.
F.
Fallen Timbers, Battle at, 92-94.
Flint, Timothy, Western Monthly Review, 169.
Florida, see East Florida, West Florida.
France supports Spain in her American policy, 72-74.
Franklin, Benjamin, advice to British ministers, 20; acquires western
land, 38, 39; on committee for boundary negotiation, 72, 74.
French settlements in Northwest, 2, 28-33; Loftus's expedition against,
33-34; under English control, 36-37.
Fur trade, 191-193.
G.
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