Places: the Wabash River

This river, which arises in Ohio, flows across Indiana to form part of the border between Indian and Illinois before draining into the Ohio River, is packed along most of its 503 miles with history.  Wabash is an English corruption of the French Ouabache, which itself is a corruption of a Miami word meaning White River or River of White Stones, referring to the clarity of the water in certain areas.  The French considered the Ohio a tributary of the Wabash before realizing it that it was the other way round.  The Wabash is the main northern tributary of the Ohio.

Several Battles have been fought along or near this River, including some we've already touched on.  In date order, they are: Battle of Vincennes, 1779; Harmer's Defeat, 1790, St. Clair's Defeat, 1791; Attack on Fort Recovery, 1794, Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811, Siege of Fort Harrison, 1812; and Siege of Fort Wayne, 1812.