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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Sept 21, 2003 18:59:26 GMT -5
Here is a link to a recent article in Military History magazine on the Battle of Blue Licks, the last major engagement of the American Revolution, fought nearly a year after the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1781. I thought it might be of some interest here though it took place in Kentucky rather than in Ohio proper. americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blbluelicks1.htmBlue Licks is interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because it was a terrible American defeat at the hands of the British and Indians! Daniel Boone lost a son here and many others died needlessly in a battle that some say should never have even taken place. It was also at Blue Licks that the white renegade Simon Girty added significantly to his already notorious reputation on the western frontier. The outcome of the Battle at Blue Licks left the situation on the Ohio frontier unresolved as the War officially came to a close in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. But the war never truly ended in the West and hostilities would continue to flare up over the next seven years until full scale Indian war broke out again in Ohio in 1790. But Blue Licks would continue to be remembered by the whites as a humiliating defeat that they would not soon forget.
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