Editing Blue Jacket (section)

==Struggle for the Old Northwest==
Blue Jacket participated in [[Lord Dunmore's War]] and the [[American Revolutionary War]] (allied with the British), always attempting to maintain Shawnee land rights. With the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War, the Shawnee lost valuable assistance in defending the Ohio Country. The struggle continued as white settlement in Ohio escalated, and Blue Jacket was a prominent leader of the resistance. He was present during the 1790 [[Harmar campaign]] and may have been one of the leaders who organized the defense.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hogeland |first=William |title=Autumn of the Black Snake |year=2017 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York |isbn=9780374107345 |lccn=2016052193 |pages=113–115}}</ref> 

On November 3, 1791, the army of a confederation of Indian tribes, led by Blue Jacket and Miami Chief [[Little Turtle]], defeated an American expedition led by [[Arthur St. Clair]], governor of the [[Northwest Territory]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Calloway |first=Colin G. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123119554 |title=The Shawnees and the war for America |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-670-03862-6 |location=New York |oclc=123119554}}</ref> The engagement, known as the Battle of the Wabash or [[St. Clair's defeat]], was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's military career and the most severe defeat ever inflicted upon the United States by Native Americans. Traditional accounts of the battle tend to give most of the credit for the victory to Little Turtle. John Sugden argues that Little Turtle's prominence is primarily because of Little Turtle's self-promotion in later years.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Blue Jacket's triumph was short-lived. The Americans were alarmed by St. Clair's disaster and raised a new professional army, commanded by General [[Anthony Wayne]]. On August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]], just south of present-day [[Toledo, Ohio]]. Blue Jacket's army was defeated, and he was compelled to sign the [[Treaty of Greenville]] on August 3, 1795, ceding much of present-day Ohio to the United States.<ref name=":0" />

In 1805, Blue Jacket also signed the [[Treaty of Fort Industry]], relinquishing even more of Ohio. In Blue Jacket's final years, he saw the rise to prominence of [[Tecumseh]], who would take up the banner and make the final attempts to reclaim Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.