However, according to the U.S Army Center of Military History, the "land-hungry frontiersmen", with "no doubt that their troubles with the Native Americans were the result of British intrigue", exacerbated the problem by stories] after every Native American raid of British Army muskets and equipment being found on the field".
The British had the long-standing goal of creating a large "neutral" Native American state that would cover much of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.