Victories in the NW Territory by this brother of an explorer forced Britain to surrender the area in 1783
... 1650's - The British and Dutch saw each other as direct 
competitors,... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 6: American Military History, Volume I [PAR] Aug 25, 2005 ... o Great Britain the War of 1812 was simply a burdensome adjunct of its greater .... 
some of whom were apparently from the Troy area, the troops supposedly ... 
watched Indian lands in the Northwest Territory whittled away by a series of ..... 
surrendered to a force of British and Indians that was half as large.