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218 also a "Black Snake." Since that road was built, the Indian race has never been a national menace. Bloody battles there have been, but at no time has the expansion of the United States been seriously jeopardized by Indian hostility.

Clark's conquest of Vincennes was now made good by the conquest of the Maumee Valley; Harmar's reverses and St. Clair's annihilation were avenged—the Old Northwest was won.