A second attack on Peoria occurred beginning on November 5 and ended on November 9 and was carried out by men under the command of Captain Thomas Craig of the Illinois militia. A large number of French citizens and Potawatomie were killed.
These attacks not only angered the people of Peoria, but angered the U.S. Government as well because they had been carried out against Indians loyal to Black Partridge and Gomo, two leaders who had not gotten involved in Tecumseh's War and were considered friendly to U.S. interests.
Ninian Edwards, having lost the confidence of the Madison administration, then left the Illinois Territory and moved to Kentucky, but continued as governor of the Illinois Territory until 1818.
She mentions that one of the Hargrave families named a little girl Ninian.
--Brock-Perry
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