Clark's expedition was in response to Bird's invasion of Kentucky earlier that summer by a combined force of Shawnee, Lenape and Miami warriors that killed and captured hundreds of white settlers.

The battle was part of a campaign in Ohio Country in the Western theater of the American Revolutionary War.

Clark reported 27 casualties (14 killed and 13 wounded[3]), but historians have corrected that number to almost three times that based on eyewitness accounts of survivors.

[6][7][8] An official ceremony was held on the 142nd anniversary to commemorate a monument to George Rogers Clark, an 18 ft. marble statue, as well as the birthplace of Tecumseh.

The park was enlarged in 1930[9] and, on the sesquicentennial celebration of the battle, an historical conference was held at nearby Wittenberg College on October 9, 1930.