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Facts

Also Known As Treaty of Fort Greenville
Date August 3, 1795
Participants Lenni Lenape • Miami • Northwest Indian Confederation • Ojibwe • Ottawa • Potawatomi • Shawnee • United States
Context Battle of Fallen Timbers

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Map illustrating the Northwest Territory as defined by the Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787, covering present-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Insets show the Ohio Company's land purchases with numbered townships and sections, and a diagram explaining how land was divided into square-mile sections, with further subdivisions labeled by acreage. Section 16 in each township is marked as reserved for public schools. Current state boundaries and years of statehood are indica
Anthony Wayne
Fallen Timbers, Battle of
Oil painting of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville signing, showing General Anthony Wayne with U.S. officers and Miami chief Little Turtle with Native American leaders in a grassy landscape.
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Little Turtle
Little Turtle
Miami chief