More than two centuries ago, on a battlefield in what is now Indiana, hundreds of American soldiers were lured to their deaths with trinkets. On a dark, warm autumn night in 1790, General Josiah Harmar marched his troops toward Kiihkayonki, the capital of the Myaamia nation. At the time, the US Army was so small that most of the fighting force was from state militias. The militiamen joined about 300 US Army soldiers on their mission to Kiihkayonki — their goal was to build a fort there.