Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah)

Events

1

Episodes

2

Years

1791

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah), with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. St. Clair's Defeat

   1791

   Role: Shawnee war chief leading the American Indian forces (per legacy discovery row; not named in supplied passages)

   1. 11791 · battlefield in present-day Mercer County, Ohio (per legacy row)St. Clair's army routed on the Wabash

      In 1791, during the Northwest Indian War, the Battle of the Wabash ended in the rout of General Arthur St. Clair's army, according to the legacy discovery row.

   2. 21791 · battlefield in present-day Mercer County, Ohio (per legacy row)Worst defeat of the U.S. Army in the Indian wars (per legacy row)

      The legacy discovery row records 630 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of civilians killed, the U.S. Army's worst loss in fighting against American Indians.

Sources

1. Battle of the Wabash Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-18