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army. 27 Later one of the remaining captives made 

 his escape, killing his two Indian owners, a man 

 and a woman, both of whom had been leaders of 

 war parties. 



In the spring of 1794, as soon as the ground was 

 dry, Wayne prepared to advance toward the hostile 

 towns and force a decisive battle. He was delayed 

 for a long time by lack of provisions, the soldiers 

 being on such short rations that they could not 

 move. The mounted riflemen of Kentucky, who 

 had been sent home at the beginning of winter, again 

 joined him. Among the regulars, in the rifle com- 

 pany, was a young Kentuckian, Captain William 

 Clark, brother of George Rogers Clark, and after- 

 ward one of the two famous explorers who first 

 crossed the continent to the Pacific. In his letters 

 home Clark dwelt much on the laborious nature 

 of his duties, and mentioned that he was "like to 

 have starved," and had to depend on his rifle for 

 subsistence. 28 In May he was sent from Fort 

 Washington with twenty dragoons and sixty infan- 

 try to escort 700 packhorses to Greeneville. When 

 eighteen miles from Fort Washington Indians at- 

 tacked his van, driving off a few packhorses; but 

 Clark brought up his men from the rear and after 



n Canadian Archives, Duggan to Chew, February 3, 1794, 

 inclosing his journal for the fall of 1793. American State 

 Papers, IV, 361, Wayne to Knox, October 23, 1793. The 

 Americans lost 13 men; the Indian reports of course exag- 

 gerated this. 



M Draper MSS., William Clark to Jonathan Clark, May 25, 

 1794. 



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