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After the American Revolution was won, Congress authorized a small regular army for general defense. Formed under Col. Josiah Harmar, this first American regiment was garrisoned at Fort McIntosh in 1784-1785, making it the first permanent post of the United States Army, and today's Presidential Honor Guard traces its origins to that garrison. In January 1785, four hundred chiefs and warriors of the Delaware, Wyandot, Chippewa, and Ottawa tribes met there with American treaty commissioners George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee and surrendered all future claims to lands north of the Ohio, making possible orderly settlement of Western Pennsylvania and all of Northwestern Ohio.
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