“American Indian Wars” in the modern perspective focuses mostly on the American West in the second half of the 19th century with cowboys, Custer and the cavalry, but the worst defeat of an American Army in the Indian Wars happened over eighty years earlier when George Washington was president.
This episode was written by Doug Knipple.
As any long-time listener will know, Doug has written for us before, and he is a high school physics teacher who lives a few miles outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Growing up in one of the major areas of early American history, it was only a matter of time before he became obsessively interested in it.