THE WAR IN THE WEST

INDIAN WAR

• British and the revolutionaries vied for Indian allies
• They vied for the forts made during the first contact
• The Indians were greatly divided
• If they picked the wrong side they could be destroyed
• Iroquois sided with the British

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• They didn't know who the Indians were sided with
• George Rogers Clark captured British and Indian troops
• Controlled parts of Ohio territory

Brutality

• Pennsylvania militiamen massacre Delaware Indians
• Came across Indians and didn't know who they were sided with
• Scalping of 28 men, 29 women, and 39 children
• Called the Gnadenhutten Massacre