THE DEFEAT OF THE PO TTOWOTTOM1KS 

 toric river and waited many weary days of 

 watching and long nights of pain from hunger 

 and fatigue for the return of the braves, many of 

 whom were never to come. The result of the 

 Battle of Tippecanoe is well known. The be- 

 trayed and defeated Pottowattomies returned to 

 their homes. Many regretted that act against 

 Ihe whites whilst many others were incited by 

 the crafty British to a desire for revenge and 

 here was laid the plot for another great tragedy, 

 the doom of Fort Dearborn. Less than two 

 years after their defeat at the Battle of Tippe- 

 canoe, the garrison at Fort Dearborn was at- 

 tached and three-fourths of their number killed. 

 The survivors surrendered with the promise of 

 their captors to spare their lives. This promise 

 was broken. Captain Wells' horse was shot 

 from under him. As he fell an Indian ran up 

 and stabbed him in the back and he died in the 

 arms of his Pottowattomie friends. The history 

 of the Fort Dearborn massacre is one of the 

 saddest Indian tragedies of the Pottowattomie 



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