Natives versus Settlers: The Battle of St. Louis, May 25, 1780
Colonial wars in North America were always grudge matches over territory, never mind what the Native inhabitants thought. England, France and Spain bickered over pieces of what is now the United States until the American Revolution, 1775-1783, the Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819, and the Mexican War, 1846-48, put a stop to it. Most of those battles were on the frontier east of the Mississippi and properly belong in Great Warriors Path. However, part of the double battle of Cahokia, in present-day Illinois, and St. Louis, in present-Missouri, happened west of the Mississippi and as it involved the Sioux, is also featured in Great Warriors II. The French lost territory two ways after the Seven Years War, 1756-1763. Most of what had been New France, i.e., Quebec, the Maritimes, and the Old Northwest, went to England. Louisiana, which included the Gulf States, went to Spain. When the Revolution began in 1775, Britain saw an opportunity not only to punish ...