Siege of Dunlap's Station

Siege of Dunlap's Station
Part of the Northwest Indian War

A plan of Dunlap's Station
DateJanuary 10–11, 1791
Location
Result American victory
Belligerents
 United States Northwestern Confederacy
Province of Quebec
Commanders and leaders
Jacob Kingsbury
Josiah Harmar
Blue Jacket
Simon Girty
Strength
~30 ~300–500
Casualties and losses
2 killed ~12–15 killed

The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of American Indians and European-American settlers in what became the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Ohio. This was one of the Indians' few unsuccessful attacks during this period. It was shortly after the Harmar Campaign attacks and unprecedented defeat of U.S. Army forces.

A few months after the siege, the United States Army suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Indians.[1] This small episode, a week after the so-called Big Bottom massacre in what became southeast Ohio, turned into an iconic event: Ohioans believed that Native Americans had tortured innocent American settlers.


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