![]() ![]() With the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War, the Shawnee lost valuable assistance in defending the Ohio Country. In that year, a British missionary visited the Shawnee villages on the Scioto River and recorded the location of Blue Jacket's Town on Deer Creek (present-day Ross County, Ohio).īlue Jacket participated in Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolutionary War (allied with the British), always attempting to maintain Shawnee land rights. He first appears in written historical records in 1773, when he was already a grown man and a war chief. ![]() ![]() Little is known of Blue Jacket's early life. Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country. ![]()
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