In December of 1847, some 50 American volunteers arrived at The Dalles, which was located near the central Oregon-Washington border. They arrived there on December 21, 1847 and engaged a band of Iron Confederation warriors, then drove them off. However, the Iron Confederations warriors were possibly attempting to only capture the American cattle and horses, which they did successfully. In January of 1848, around 500 American militiamen, under the command of Colonel Cornelius Gilliam, took to the offensive in south central Washington and north central Oregon, against the Indians of that region, who had recently been decimated by “Germ Warfare”, which made subduing the Indians there all the more easier. In early March of 1848, they reached the Walla Walla region with the support of American soldiers, then proceeded to locate the Indians to wage war on them, but it wasn’t easy to find them, as a result of some of that regions mountainous terrain. Warriors from the Iron Confederation struck at will against the settlers of the Walla Walla region, but their numbers had been reduced by the recent use of deliberate “Germ Warfare” against them by the whites, and they also did not have enough sufficient modern day weapons of war. After realizing that they were enduring a horrible tragedy, they fled into the nearby Blue Mountains for protection, not only against the American military, but to quarantine themselves against “Germ Warfare”. They learned long before back east from probably the whites, that the only measures to take to avoid the use of “Germ Warfare” was to quarantine themselves.
What led to the white victory against the Iron Confederation of western, central and eastern Oregon and Washington, was the deliberate use of “Germ Warfare”. This was only the beginning of the Iron Confederations attempt to defend their land against the evil white race. From now on the leaders of the Iron Confederation of Oregon and Washington, kept an watchful eye on their evil white brethren, in order to defend themselves from “Germ Warfare”. The whites had opened up western and central Washington to white settlement, but the Iron Confederation continued to hold out in central and eastern Oregon and central and eastern Washington, particularly in the eastern portions of those two States. Their population there was not as large as in Idaho and Montana, but they had their settlers living in both Oregon and Washington, and they were determined to defend their lands their ancestors had conquered for them, four or five decades earlier, by using their military might to colonize those regions.