What are some famous historical events that have happened in Indiana?
At the time of the revolution, Virginia and several other states of the United States maintained territorial claims in the west. Shortly after the war they ceded their claims to the federal government. By the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the United States organized the possessions north of the Ohio River as the Northwest Territory. As settlers poured into the new territory from the east, the Native Americans again became alarmed. Little Turtle, a chief of the Miami, led a widespread revolt in Ohio and Indiana. It was brought to an end in August 1794, when troops led by U.S. General Anthony Wayne inflicted a crushing defeat on the Native American forces at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, near present-day Toledo, Ohio. Wayne then continued into Indiana and built a stockade across the river from old Fort Miami. The new fort became the center of a white settlement that is now the city of Fort Wayne. In 1795 the Miami signed a treaty with Wayne, giving up a large part of their land. Between t
