The Ohio Indians and the Coming of the American Revolution in Virginia

SCHOOLCHILDREN LEARN THAT THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763, which banned colonial settlement and land speculation west of the Appalachian Mountains, helped provoke thirteen American colonies to rebel against Britain. But most historians assert that the Proclamation of 1763 was, in effect, repealed in November 1768, when Iroquois chiefs met British officials at Fort Stanwix, New York, and sold them a vast tract of land west of the Appalachians.' This assertion is incorrect with regard to the South. Even after 1768 the British government prohibited its colonists from moving into the portion of the newly purchased territory claimed by Virginia, and the government refused to repeal the Proclamation of 1763. This article will show that the most important reason for the government's refusal was that British statesmen were desperate to avoid a costly war against a powerful coalition of southern and western Indians.2

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