The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-09

and Wayne expected the British to join in the attack upon the Americans when the time was ripe, and Wayne made plans to receive the Brit ish with his horsemen; the Indians with the infantry.
 The long-expected battle came on the morn ing of August 20. As Wayne,s army advanced cautiously along the western banks of the Mau- mee, the American general saw that the Indian general Little Turtle, had chosen his battlefield with great skill Here a tornado had swept through the forest, covering the ground with fallen trees. The left flank Of the Indians posi- ton was covered by the Maumee and their front by tangle of logs which, in the words of Wayne, "rendered 1t impracticable for cavalry to act with effect and afforded the enemy the most favorable covert for their savage method of warfare"
 Undaunted by this, Wayne at once deployed his forces in two lines with his Kentucky volun- teer cavalry on his left flank and sent these under General Scott ito gain and turn their right with spirit and promptitude." Wayne's official report of the battle that followed is laconic account of this battle which was over almost before 1t began. He says:
 '1 ordered the front line to advance with trailed arms rouse the Indians from their GOV erts at the point of the bayonet and, when up, to deliver a close and wei directed fire on their backs followed by a brisk charge so as not to give time to load again. '. i. Such was the impetuosty of the charge by the first line of infantry that the Indian and Canadian militia and volunteers were driven from all their GOV erts in so short a time that, although every exertion was used by officers of the second line of the legion, and by Generals Scott, Todd, and Barber of the Mounted Volunteers to gain their proper positions, yet but a part of each could get up in season to participate in the action, the enemy being driven in the course of an hour more than two miles through the thick woods already mentioned by less than one-hah of their numbers .. From every account the enemy amounted to two thousand combatants, and the troops actually engaged against them were short of nine hundred"
 The rout of the Indians was complete and they fled toward the British fort whose gates they expected would be opened to them Instead. the British kept their outer wall tightly closed, and the confused Indians, closely followed by the American rifemen, abandoned their camp and equipment, and fled to the woods
 The next day Wayne marched his men so close to the fort as to bring from It's naughty commander a demand to know "as speedily as possible in what light am to view your making such near approaches to this garrison" To this Mad Anthony" sent a characteristic reply: "without questioning the propriety, Sir of your interrogatory, may observe to you that were you entitled to an answer, the most full and satisfactory one was announced to you from the muzzles of my small arms yesterday morning in the actions against the hordes of savages in the vicinity of your post. But had 1t continued until the Indians etc. had been driven under the influence of the post and guns you mention they would not have much impeded the progress of the Victorious Army under my command"
 Later Wayne fell back to Fort Defiance, but khx ho aAxr lages near the scene of Harmar's defeat and for the next month his men were busily engaged in the destruction of the villages and crops of the Indians Next he built post to which he gave the name of Fort Wayne (from which grew the modern city of that name) and then retired to Fort Greenville to go into winter quarters
 The last act of the drama came in the summer of 1795 when Chief Little Turtle, who had warned the Indians against trying to oppose this chief who never sleeps" and advised them to make peace while there still was time. led his defeated tribesmen and their allies to the fort to engage in the negotiations which resulted in the historic Treaty of Fort Greenville
 In the words of a recent historian (BeverIey W. Bond, IT,, author of 'sThe Civilization of the Old Northwest" published by the Macmillan com pany), "this treaty marked the first important victory over the Indians in the Old Northwest By it's terms, all of Ohio, except approximately the section west of the Cuyahoga, was opened to settlement as well as the elongated strip in southeastern Indiana known as the gore The treaty also included cession of small strate- gically located areas In the Indian country for military posts. with lines of communication be- tween them and thus made 1t possible to estab- fish such posts as Fort Wayne at the head of the Maumee and Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago. <. The surrender of Detroit, the center of British influence among the Indi- ans, in 1798 after Jays treaty had been ratified, rounded out the results of Wayne's victory
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