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army or "Legion," as he preferred to call it 

 the one stipulation he made was that the campaign 

 should not begin until his ranks were full and his 

 men thoroughly disciplined. 



Toward the end of the summer of '92 he estab- 

 lished his camp on the Ohio about twenty-seven 

 miles below Pittsburg. He drilled both officers 

 and men with unwearied patience, and gradually 

 the officers became able to do the drilling them- 

 selves, while the men acquired the soldierly self- 

 confidence of veterans. As the new recruits came 

 in they found themselves with an army which was 

 rapidly learning how to manoeuvre with precision, 

 to obey orders unhesitatingly, and to look forward 

 eagerly to a battle with the foe. Throughout the 

 winter Wayne kept at work, and by the spring he 

 had under him twenty-five hundred regular soldiers 

 who were already worthy to be trusted in a cam- 

 paign. 



Wayne never relaxed his efforts to improve 

 them, though a man of weaker stuff might well 

 have been discouraged by the timid and hesitating 

 policy of the National Government. The Secretary 

 of War, in writing to him, laid stress chiefly on the 

 fact that the American people desired at every 

 hazard to avert an Indian war, and that on no ac- 

 count should offensive operations be undertaken 

 against the tribes. Such orders tied Wayne's hands, 

 for offensive operations offered the only means of 

 ending the war, but he patiently bided his time, 

 and made ready his army against the day when 



