October 7

Harmar Campaign begins

Brigadier General Josiah Harmar of the US Army marched with his forces in an attempt to attack Miami forces in northwestern Ohio. The Miami people's center was at a Kekionga near modern day Fort Wayn…

Royal Proclamation of 1763

On this day in 1763 King George III of Great Britain issued a proclamation forbading new settlements west of a line roughly following the watershed boundary of the Appalachian mountains (Eastern Cont…