" 17 General Arthur St. Clair, whose little knowledge of or interest in Indians, combined with notably poor judgment, led to one of the worst defeats ever of the American army in a battle by the Wabash River on November 4, 1791, to be known only as St. Clair’s Defeat. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West