The Peoria War was an armed conflict between the U. S. Army and the Native American tribes of the Potawatomi and the Kickapoo that took place in the Peoria County, Illinois area, near the current location of the city of Peoria, from September 19 to October 21, 1813. The Military history of the United States spans a period of less than two and a half centuries. ... Categories: Stub | Illinois history | U.S. historical regions and territories ... The Kickapoo are Native American tribes. ... Rain dance, Kansas, c. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Assiniboin Boy, an Atsina Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times. ... Rain dance, Kansas, c. ... The Kickapoo are Native American tribes. ... Peoria County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ... Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria CountyGR6, Illinois. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

It must be noted that the Native American tribe of the Peoria was not involved in this conflict. Rather, its name comes from the location of the events, which had originally received its denomination from that of the tribe. The Peoria tribe was one of the Native American tribes that formed the Illiniwek tribal group in what is now the Midwest of the United States of America. ...

The Peoria War was closely related to the larger scale Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812, while essentialy circumscribed to actions within the Peoria area. It also ended after the Battle of the Thames and the death of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh on October 5, 1813, which is generally considered as the ending date of the Native American involvement in the War of 1812. At Vincennes in 1810, Tecumseh loses his temper when William Henry Harrison refuses to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne. ... This page refers to the war between the United States of America and Great Britain. ... The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was a decisive American victory in the War of 1812 which took place on October 5, 1813. ... The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. ... This 1848 drawing of Tecumseh was based on a sketch done from life in 1808. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ...

Origins

Potawatomi chief Black Partridge (Wabaunseei), on an anonymous illustration c. 1815.

Most members of the Potawatomi and the Kickapoo had joined the Confederacy of tribes that had been formed around 1808 by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, and fought on his side in Tecumseh's War and with the British in the War of 1812. Some local tribal leaders based in the Peoria Lake area like Gomo and Black Partridge (Wabaunseei), however, leaned towards the American side, as they had done during the War of Independence. Rain dance, Kansas, c. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... At Vincennes in 1810, Tecumseh loses his temper when William Henry Harrison refuses to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Tenskwatawa or Elskwatawa (1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader known as the Shawnee Prophet. ... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...

This changed with an unjustified attack against these tribes ordered by Illinois territorial governor Ninian Edwards in November, 1812, in which many neutral Potawatomi were killed. The allegiance of these remaining groups switched completely to the British and Tecumseh's side, and the entirety of the tribes took part in all the remaining actions of the war until the Battle of the Thames. Ninian Edwards (1775–1833) was a U.S. political figure. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Course of the Peoria War

Native American resistence generally stopped after the death of Tecumseh, but it continued for a short period at a few places, like in the Peoria Lake area by the Potawatomi and the Kickapoo. In August 1813, 150 soldiers from St. Louis came to Peoria and began building Fort Clark. On September 19, an attack by Black Partridge's Potawatomi was repulsed, and soon afterwards, reinforcements arrived in the form of 800 mounted Roger's Rangers. The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... Rogers Rangers were a group of colonial militia that fought for the British during the French and Indian War. ...

The troops engaged the combined Potawatomi-Kickapoo force on October 21 and defeated them, and destroyed two nearby villages (including chief Gomo's). Faced with overwhelming military force, the Potawatomi made peace that fall, and Black Partridge met with Governor William Clark at St. Louis in January, 1814. Gomo began supplying Fort Clark's garrison with meat, and all the local chiefs kept the peace afterwards, with only ocassional skirmishes for several years. Some Kickapoo would later take part in the Black Hawk War on the side of their allies, the Sauk. William Clark (August 1, 1770 - September 1, 1838) was an explorer who accompanied Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Chief Black Hawk The Black Hawk War was fought in 1832 in the Midwestern section of the United States. ... For the abbreviation or acronym SAC, please see SAC. The Sauks or Sacs (Asakiwaki in their own language) are a group of Native Americans whose original territory may have been along the St. ...

See also

• Tecumseh's War
• War of 1812
• Indian Wars
• Black Hawk War

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External links

• First Nations Compact Histories: Potawatomi History