The 1774-1794 Anishinabe-American War

Sooner or later the greedy English whites were going to launch an all out invasion into the empire of the Three Fires Confederation, which was located from Michigan down to Georgia. When 1774 came along the English commenced to single out the Anishinabe land where the State of Kentucky is now, to force their way in. Kentucky was used by both the northern and southern Anishinabek as a hunting ground. Knowing that the Kentucky region was void of Indians was extremely attractive to the English Americans who, under the command of Lord Dumore and several thousand English American soldiers, deliberately invaded the hunting grounds of the Anishinabe. The Anishinabe and the English Americans met and did battle at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. It was a tough battle in which the Anishinabe dominated, until the English Americans were reinforced. The new English reinforcements forced the Anishinabe to retreat from the battle they were winning, allowing the English Americans to win the battle.

The Northern Anishinabe Military Campaigns After the Battle of Point Pleasant, the northern Anishinabek raised up thousands of their warriors to wage a war against the English Americans who refer to that war as the American War for Independance. On many occasions the Anishinabek and their allies, launched large scale raids on the Americans who were invading from the east coast. From New England to Maryland and New Jersey, the brave Anishinabe warriors repeatedly raided the Americans during the war, inflicting thousands of casualties on their bitter white enemy. They also carried out raids on small and large American villages during the war, throughout New England, New York, Maryland and New Jersey. When a ceasefire took effect in 1783 which ended the so called American War for Independance, the war between the Anishinabe and the Americans continued. It took several more large military engagements fought between the Anishinabek and the Americans, and thousands of more killed English American settlers, before the northern Anishinabek agreed to peace in 1794, after the Battle of Fallen Timbers was lost.

The Southern Anishinabe Military Campaigns Those Anishinabe who lived in the south also joined with their northern relatives during the 1774-1794 war to wage war against the English Americans. By this time the black allies of the Anishinabek had probably become numerous. Though white historians claim that only a few hundred to maybe 1,000 blacks fled to the southern Anishinabek, i don't believe that estimate. It is far more likely that the black allies of the Anishinabek numbered in the thousands by 1774, and in fact, they may have been capable of raising 1,000 or more warriors to participate in the war. The goal of the southern Anishinabek was no different than that of the northern Anishinabek. The southern Anishinabek and their black and Indian allies, launched large scale raids on white settlers and small and large white villages throughout the 1774-1794 war. The southern Anishinabek also agreed to peace in 1794. The 1774-1794 war the Anishinabek and their allies fought against the English Americans, was devastating to everyone involved, but it was the whites who suffered the most casualties during the long conflict. It is likely that 10,000s of white settlers and soldiers were killed by the brave Anishinabek in the long war.