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The Winning of the West, Volume Four

CHAPTER V
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220, etc.] In 1800 the Connecticut Reserve, in what is now northeastern Ohio, was taken by the United States.

The Northwestern Territory was divided into two parts; the eastern was composed mainly of what is now the State of Ohio, while the western portion was called Indiana Territory, and was organized with W.H.Harrison as Governor, his capital being at Vincennes.

[Footnote: "Annals of the West," by Thomas H.Perkins, p.473.A valuable book, showing much scholarship and research.

The author has never received proper credit.

Very few indeed of the Western historians of his date showed either his painstaking care or his breadth of view.] Harrison had been Wayne's aid-de-camp at the fight of the Fallen Timbers, and had been singled out by Wayne for mention because of his coolness and gallantry.


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