The worst ever defeat at the hands of the Indian's was at Fort Recorvery, Ohio in 1783. Washington didn't hear of the defeat for nearly 5-months. 600 regular soldiers (the entire standing US Army after the continential army stand-down) marched out of Cincinnati Ohio past Dayton, Greenville and up what is now State Route 49 to the Walbash River Fork to attack an Indian village. The noisy white men, with accompanying 300 scouts, irregulars, and family members/camp followers numbered about 1500 people. My grandmother's farm holds the remains of many fallen, never buried soldiers.... I dug some up as an eight year old boy with grandfather in the bottom of the barn which has stood since 1814.... At my father's boyhood, farm they camped the night before the battle and there is a stone marker. In total, about 300 whites survived the slaughter. In 1792, Mad Anthony Wayne retook the field on the way to the Battle of the Fallen Timbers!
Custer married into the family via a sister-in-law, so I've always wondered if having passed the hollowed ground of another Indian defeat might have not influenced the other:)
Thanks for the information Jumper.
I've never heard of that event. Just goes to show, you can learn something new. Now that you've got me curious, I'll have to see what i can find and read about it.