Frontier War

Proclamation of 1763.

NATIVE AMERICANS SUPPORT THE BRITISH

The colonists have move west from the Appalachian.In the aryls 1700s they started moving west.The british had many allieds including the native americans who support them.The british will urged the native to increase there attacks and for them to stay out of conflict.In 1776 both sides the americans and british courted the Iroquois Confederancy.The iroquois represented an alliance of six different native groups,they were one of the strongest nations during that timeThere was a the when the iroquois confederancy fell apart for the first time and they started fighting between one another.

Coronel Clark(patriot) who was part of the militia and in charged of it.Clark took two indians settlements kaskasia and cohoskia in the ohio river valley,spring of 1778.In the late summer clark men 175 soldiers,in this attack they were helped by the French.At this time they had captured all british forts or either posts.The british and the native americans allies recaptured one of the posts vincennes,indiana.Most of clarks soldiers were unpaid other were else volunteers,in february 1779 they have reached vincennes and they got to convince some of the indian alludes to leave the british.

In 1779 the british troops attack certain posts,the patriots in revenge they burn 40 iroquois towns,this cause a break down in the iroquois federation.

The indians continue with there attack after what happen,this cause for the white settlers to move east.Many of the iroquois ideas were put in the constitution of america since they were tactic and one of there qualities was that they were very intelligent.