This Indian chief led the forces that inflicted the greatest defeat ever suffered by the U.S. Army at the hands of North American Indians:
Tecumseh
Pontiac
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Little Turtle
Little Turtle.
Miami Indian Chief Little Turtle led the powerful force of Miami, Wyandot, Iroquois, Shawnee, Delaware, Ojibwa and Potawatomi that on November 4, 1791, inflicted the greatest defeat ever suffered by the U.S. Army at the hands of North American Indians. Some 623 regulars led by General Arthur St. Clair were killed and 258 wounded on the banks of the Wabash River near present day Fort Wayne, Indiana. The staggering defeat moved Congress to authorize a larger army in 1792.
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