Just after noon on June 1, 1791, Brigadier General Charles Scott, 33 officers, and 760 mounted Kentucky militiamen rode from the elevation now known as High Gap toward the principal town of the Ouiatenons, or Weas, four miles to the north. After the Revolutionary War, Ouiatenon, a fortified century-old trading town, became a rendezvous for Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten Native Americans conducting raids against American settlements along the Ohio and Kentucky frontier, while the Wabash towns and their Miami and Shawnee allies on the Maumee River received continuing British encouragement from Detroit to violently resist American encroachment into the Northwest Territory. In March 1791, with peace efforts exhausted, President George Washington ordered Secretary of War Henry Knox to direct a punitive raid against the Wea using the Kentucky militia. Scott's force mustered near Cincinnati and marched 160 miles to Ouiatenon in eight days. There they engaged the several villages of the Grand Ouiatenon, while an unmounted detachment of 350 men under Lieutenant Colonel James Wilkinson destroyed Kethtippecanuck near the mouth of the Tippecanoe River. Scott burned the villages and 300 acres of growing corn at Ouiatenon, narrowly missing a force of 500 Wea warriors mistakenly sent to defend the Maumee towns from his attack. He then returned to Kentucky, delivering 41 women and children taken prisoner to Fort Steuben at Clarksville en route, and they were transferred to Fort Washington near Cincinnati until the principal Ouiatenon chiefs agreed to terms of peace in 1792.