3. Foreign Threats
- British in NW, Spain in SW
- Joseph Brant's Northwest Confederacy
- Little Turtle defeats Harmar, St. Clair
- bloodiest battle in early America Nov. 4, 1791, at Fort Recovery
- Spanish "Conspiracy" closed river at Natchez 1784
- Spain's 1784 Pensacola Treaty with 4 Indian nations
- Jay-Gardoqui talks 1784-6
- proposed treaty would give U.S. boundary but closed river for 25 years, caused opposition of South
- Chris Columb view of Americans on river
- Congress 7-5 vote 8/29/1786 failed
- Spain seized boats at Natchez 1787
- G.R. Clark 1787 raid on Spainish store at Vincennes
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