But the third and most compelling reason the Indians could not have pushed the Europeans back into the sea...
When did I say anything like that? No one, not even the Indians, ever thought that was a possibility.
No, what I was talking about was a large Northwest Indian territory maintained by treaty and force of arms much like the one demanded by the British as a condition for the end of the War of 1812. Had the British remained more constant, or not have suffered a couple of setbacks in the last months of the war, it very likely could have been a reality.
Once that happened, white settlement may have been diverted around that territory to other more easily taken areas.
And certainly, the British were the allies of the eastern Indians against the Americans.
