In 1778, after victories in the region by the General George Rogers Clark, the Virginia legislature organized the first civil government in the region. They called it Illinois County, which encompassed all of the lands lying west of the Ohio River to which Virginia had any claim. The high-water mark of the Native American struggle to retain the region was in 1782: the Ohio nations and the British met in a council at the Shawnee "Chalawgatha" village along the Little Miami River. They planned what was the successful rout of the Americans at the Battle of Blue Licks, south of the Ohio River, two weeks later.