On
Memorial Day, we remember those who lost their lives in wartime. But
there have been more wars and conflicts in U.S. history than you covered
in history class at school, as the school year only allows time to
touch the big ones. For example, you may have learned that the
Revolutionary War ended with Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
However, fighting actually continued for another 13 months!
October 1781 to November 1782 saw General “Mad” Anthony
Wayne’s campaign to fully recover Georgia from British Loyalists and
their Native American allies and saw incessant guerrilla warfare in the
Ohio Country periodically flare up into larger- scale actions , with
George Washington’s associate Colonel William Crawford being killed in
one such battle. In addition, British Loyalists and their Native
American allies parlayed military successes in Ohio into repeated
excursions eastward and southward, with large- scale actions at Blue
Lick, KY and elsewhere before being driven back.
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