Talk:Skirmishes around Vincennes (1786)

Location is in Illinois

The Embarras River is to the west of the Wabash river, in Illinois.

Yeah. Richard Day's article says, "The result was the "Battle of the Embarras River" fought between the militia and a group of Piankashaw Indians The encounter occurred three miles east of town on April 15, 1786." I imagine that was a typo, since of course Day was well aware the Embarras is west of Vincennes, not east. In 1879 John Brown Dillon described it this way: "A skirmish took place between about thirty citizens of Vincennes and a party of Indians who were encamped on the right bank of the Wabash, near the mouth of the river Embarrass." That definitely puts the skirmish on the Illinois side of the Wabash. Kevin1776 (talk) 04:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Expanding the scope

This is a good article, but the "battle" is covered in just one sentence. Which is fine, since there's not much more to say about this poorly documented skirmish. I want to expand the scope of this article to include more of the various killings and skirmishes in the Vincennes area in 1786, including a slightly bigger skirmish involving John Hardin. Otherwise the scope of the article remains much the same, ending with GR Clark's failed 1786 expedition and the subsequent US Army occupation. The hard part is knowing what to name the article. Maybe something like Operations around Vincennes (1786). Kevin1776 (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

"Skirmishes around Vincennes (1786)" is what I went with for now, pending a better idea. Kevin1776 (talk) 04:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)