[1] The incident sparked outcries for better protection along the route, and Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison organized the Rangers to provide a fast response to attacks, primarily as a deterrent to random American Indian raids.

[2] The Rangers were modeled on the mounted troops used by General Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

[2] All Rangers were paid $1 per day, and were required to supply their own horse, ammunition, tomahawk, a large and small knife, and a leather belt.

[7] Resistance to U.S. colonization in the Indiana Territory by Native Americans became more frequent after the outbreak of war, which led to attacks such as the Pigeon Roost raid.

General Samuel Hopkins utilized the Rangers in his Second Tippecanoe Campaign (1812), where several were killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.

[8] The Shawnee then put some distance between themselves and the fort, but were soon pursued by 30 Indiana Rangers under Major John Tipton known as "Corydon's Yellow Jackets".

Few casualties were suffered due to the firing distance across the river and the shelter provided by the wooded island.

There was a victory celebration, but as details of the skirmish emerged, it was determined to be a small engagement against a war party that managed to escape.

[12] On June 11, 1813, Indiana General Joseph Bartholomew led a force of 137 Rangers to patrol the White River.

Bartholomew and his Rangers raided the Native American Delaware villages destroying 1000 bushels of corn, and capturing 3 horses.

That July, Rangers under General Bartholomew supplemented Colonel Russell's mounted force, which traveled 500 miles through the Indiana territory destroying hostile Indian villages.

The Americans had located an Indian stockade fort in Miami County Indiana and he burned it to the ground.

After completing the raid, Russell and his fellow mounted raiders withdrew safely back to Fort Harrison.