no The Winning of the West 



On August 20, 1794, Wayne marched to battle 

 against the Indians. 41 They lay about six miles 

 down the river, near the British fort, in a place 

 known as the Fallen Timbers, because there the 

 thick forest had been overturned by a whirlwind, 

 and the dead trees lay piled across one another in 

 rows. All the baggage was left behind in the breast- 

 work, with a sufficient guard. The army numbered 

 about three thousand men ; two thousand were regu- 

 lars, and there were a thousand mounted volunteers 

 from Kentucky under General Scott. 



The army marched down the left or north branch 

 of the Maumee. A small force of mounted volun- 

 teers Kentucky militia were in front. On the 

 right flank the squadron of dragoons, the regular 

 cavalry, marched next to the river. The infantry, 

 armed with musket and bayonet, were formed in 

 two long lines, the second some little distance be- 

 hind the first; the left of the first line being contin- 

 ued by the companies of regular riflemen and light 

 troops. Scott, with the body of the mounted volun- 



Antoine Lasselle, was captured. He gave in detail the num- 

 bers of the Indians engaged; they footed up to over 1,500. A 

 deserter from the fort, a British drummer of the 24th Regi- 

 ment, named John Bevin, testified that he had heard both 

 McKee and Elliott report the number of Indians as 2,000, in 

 talking to Major Campbell, the commandant of the fort, after 

 the battle. He and Lasselle agree as to Caldwell's rangers. 

 See their depositions, American State Papers, IV, 494. 



41 Draper MSS., William Clark to Jonathan Clark, August 

 28, 1794. McBride, II, 129; "Life of Paxton." Many of the 

 regulars and volunteers were left in Fort Defiance and the 

 breastworks on the Maumee as garrisons. 



