Jean François Hamtramck

Jean-François Hamtramck (sometimes called John Francis Hamtramck) (1756–1803) was an officer who served in the US Army during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War.

Hamtramck, of French heritage, was born in Montreal, Canada (then part of New France). He joined the Continental Army as a captain in 1776, and became a decorated officer in the American Revolutionary War. He returned to the Army in 1785, and in 1787, he was made commander of Fort Vincennes in the Illinois Country, where he negotiated a peace treaty with local Indian tribes.

In Autumn 1790, Major Hamtramck was ordered to move against Indian villages on the Wabash, Vermilion, and Eel rivers to create a distraction from the campaign led by General Josiah Harmar. The Hamtramck expedition consisted of his own garrison, with militia from the local French residents and Kentucky. They found only one empty village, and lacked the supplies to reach more villages with the full force. Hamtramck returned to Vincennes, learning later that a force of 600 warriors from the Wabash Confederacy had assembled to fight—nearly double his own force. Hamtramck considered the Wabash force evidence that his primary mission had been accomplished.

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