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Post by halsherman on Aug 5, 2006 19:10:55 GMT -5
I just read a piece about the"Fort Washington Flag" by Donald W. Holst in the Cincinnati Historical Society publication "Queen City Heritage" Vol 49 Fall 1991 #3 which has a story about the mayor receiving a flag from a descendant that claimed it flew over Fort Washington. A great story about how the Regiment Colors should bear some kind of similitude to the Uniforms etc.
I've always read stories about Harmar's ability and his failures, or being drunk on his campaign, or that the Militia failed him. I feel that he had to be very brave to lead an army that deep into Indian country which was a total wilderness. He probably was just out General-ed by his formidable opponent and lacking in the spies for the proper intelligences needed for such an undertaking.
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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Aug 5, 2006 21:12:15 GMT -5
I've always been interested in Harmar's Campaign, especially because so little has been written about it. Most of the histories of the Ohio Wars seem to go into detail about St. Clair's Defeat and of course Fallen Timbers, but poor Harmar barely seems to garner a footnote.
Harmar may have been a drinker, but it seems to me that his mission was doomed to failure from the get-go. He seems to have had no support from Washington and his men were a rabble. Here was a man who intended to lead a mass of men and supplies into the wilderness against a foe who prowess in battle was well known by the frontier settlers. It seems like history has given him short shrift.
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