Virginia granted Clark's men 150,000 acres opposite the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville, KY) due to Clarks's partial conquest of the Northwest

WAKE - The Treaty of Paris 1763 was signed between the French king and the English king ending the French and Indian War/Seven Year War in Indiana. The treaty awarded all French territories in  North America east of the Mississippi to the Brits. That included Indiana for those of you who are geographically challenged. It was a horrific disaster for Pontiac’s  “Indians First” movement. The Indians would no longer be able to pit the French humans against the English humans in North America.

Thanks to the Prophet’s “Indians First Movement” the local Indian tribes around the Detroit River were now woke to the British hegemonic intentions. War Chief Pontiac  in response to the local Indians enlightenment coached up four of the tribes to kick off a three phased hot war against the British swells. The first attack was at Fort Detroit. But, Pontiacs surprise tip of his phase one kinetic spear aimed at the garrison at Fort Detroit bombed.

With the French gone and British in control of the forts a snarky British General named Amherst dropped a bomb on the Indians. He explained “No more free stuff. No free gifts, no powder, no booze. You Indians, your on your own baby.”

The Indians were triggered by the change. It started a cultopolitical (coined) struggle the Indians never had with the French. There would be unintended consequences.

March 1736. The Chickasaw Indians who are allied with the English are disrupting the Mississippi River communication route between Quebec and New Orleans. Bienville ,the governor of Louisiana, devised a two prong North-South attack. He, Bienville, planned to march north from New Orleans and he ordered  both Vincennes and the commandant from Fort de Chartres just south of St. Louis to march south rendezvousing near Toupelo Mississippi. Both were marching to a tortured death at the Battle of Ackia.

In 1682 French explorer and fur trader Sieur de La Salle and group canoed from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Mouth of the Mississippi at the Gulf of Mexico. He claimed the entire Mississippi drainage basin for France. Upon his return in 1701 the French built Ft. Detroit on the West Bank of the Detroit River to strengthen French control of the west against the English. French explorers then discovered a shorter route to the lower Mississippi along the Maumee-Wabash-Ohio Rivers.

The 16th Century was quiet in Indiana after the Mississippian Indians left in 1500 A.D.. It wasn't until the mid 17th Century that new Indians began to drift into Indiana. French fur traders also appeared at that time. They used the Wabash River as vital  connection between French Canada and The Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Capital of Indiana Territory moves to Corydon on the Ohio River.

The move from Vincennes to Corydon was supported by political opponents of William Henry Harrison and his political power base in Knox County. They reasoned that by moving the territorial capital southeast it could better serve the ever growing Hoosier population. The capital was moved in 1813. A constitutional convention was held and on December 11, 1816 Indiana became the 19th State in the Union.

The War of 1812 - 1815  was sparked some by the Battle of Tippecanoe . One of the main battles in Indiana was The Battle of Mississinewa in Grant County / Marion, Indiana.