John F. Winkler

I wasn't completely satisfied with this book. It was extremely difficult to follow the course of the narrative, as I felt Winkler kept jumping back and forth out of the flow to address events before and after the battle. I will grant you, the campaign was a very confusing one, but there seems to be a massive tangle of personalities and battles and strategy that he doesn't really do much to unravel. I can't honestly say I recommend this book, unless you're mad keen on the frontier wars of the era.… (meer)

I grew up about 20 iles from Fallen Tibers an was taken there as a young Cub Scout, so Anthony Wayne was a boyhood hero of mine. He really did do a remarkable job of raising and training a new American army to replace Sinclair's force which the Natives had destroyed at what Osprey calls the Battle of he Wabash in 1791. Fallen Timbers reversed a series of Native succeses and forced them to agree to the Treaty of Greeneville which gave the American settlers effective control of most of Ohio. Despite its importance, there are not a lot of books dedcatd toit. One interesting study is Fletcher Pratt's in Eleven Generals. Winkler's study s fuller, ore recent, and very well illustrated.… (meer)

A competent straightforward account of the campaign (commonly called Lord Dunmore's War) in which Dunmore, the last British royal governor of Virginia,sent two small armies of VIrginia militia to the then Virgnia border with the lands claimed by the Shawnees and other Naive peoples in Ohio. Dunmore himself led one column; the other column was the one the natives --Shawnees, with some volunteers from other tribes -- chose to attack in their camp at the meeting of the Kanawha and Ohio RIvers. After fierce fighting, the militia won the battle. Afterwards, the Natives ceded what became Kentucky and western Virginia (later West Virginia. many of those involved went on to be active in the American Revolution and in the Native wars in the 1790s. One odd note: Dunmore himself and one of his aides, Angus MacDonald, had both served at Culloden, on the Jacobite side.… (meer)