The power in America that held the Ohio River: the Western Confederacy

SUMMARYThe power in America that held the Ohio River: the Western Confederacy (Nov 4, 2026). Tito: "I think there was another king in America that stopped them from crossing that river."

RECORDafter 1783 the nations north of the Ohio formed a confederacy (Shawnee, Miami, Lenape, Wyandot, Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and others) and held the Ohio River as the boundary. Under Little Turtle (Mishikinakwa, Miami), Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah, Shawnee) and Buckongahelas (Lenape), they defeated General Harmar (1790), then destroyed Arthur St. Clair's army at the Wabash on November 4, 1791: about 600 or more soldiers killed, roughly a quarter of the US Army, the worst defeat the US Army has ever suffered against the nations. In 1793 their council told the US commissioners in writing that the Ohio must be the boundary. The line fell only after Fallen Timbers (1794) and the Treaty of Greenville (1795). Tecumseh's confederacy (1805–1813) rose to hold it again.
RECORD, the lodge claim: many on both sides were Masons on record (Washington, Franklin, Hancock, Revere; British military lodges travelled with regiments). "All of them" fails: George III was not a Mason, though his sons were (the future George IV became Grand Master). Lodge Library rule: no one is labeled a Mason without tier 1 evidence.
RECORD, the logistics: European powers did sail across the world to fight each other: the Seven Years' War was fought in Europe, North America, India, West Africa and the Philippines. What was being fought over was the land and the trade

PATTERNthe power that actually stopped the crossing for a decade was in America, and it was the nations' confederacy, not a European king

LENS (WW9)Tito's "another king in America": the confederacy's leaders held the river line

OPENwhether a single paramount leader stood above the confederacy council, and the nations' own record of the 1793 council. Needs deep research.