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December 17-18, 1812 Battle of Mississinewa

This battle was fought near where present day Jalapa, Indiana is situated. Supposedly whites were going to destroy several Miami Anishinabe villages in that region. Most Miami were neutral however. Same can be said of Delaware Anishinabek and Illini Anishinabek. Real goal of white soldiers was to wage war on Anishinabe People of that region, even if they were nuetral. A force of 900 white soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John B. Campbell, set off from Fort Greenville on December 14, 1812, to march to neutral Miami and Delaware villages. They took one Delaware village without any violence and took 42 captive, but they deliberately attacked two Miami villages, inflicting large numbers of casualties on the villages inhabitants, and took 76 captive. Within a short time, news of the white soldiers attack on the neutral Miami villages reached the nearby Anishinabek, who quickly assembled scores of their brave soldiers, then quickly marched towards where the white soldiers were leading the captive Indians to, which was Fort Greenville. On the morning of December 18, 1812 that force of Ojibway Soldiers caught up to the white soldiers holding 118 Delaware and Miami captive, then launched an attack on the large white military force. In the battle that followed, 12 white soldiers were killed, and another 48 were wounded. However, they did defeat the Ojibway Soldiers. The whites eventually learned that more Indian reinforcements were soon to arrive then quickly marched to Fort Greenville.