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General Wayne, in endeavoring to make peace, and in pre- 

 paring for war, so that it was September, before he was ready 

 to move forward into the heart of the Indian country. Gen- 

 eral Wayne collected his army and marched six miles north of 

 Fort Jefferson, where he established a camp, and fortified it, 

 and called it Greenville. The town of Greenville is not 

 far from where this camp was. General Wayne, having 

 made this encampment and wintered in it, early the next 

 spring he marched forward to the ground where St. Clair had 

 been defeated, on the 4th of November 1791, where he erect- 

 ed a fortification, and called it Fort Recovery. 



Leaving this post he moved forward to the ground where 

 Harmar had been defeated in 1790, and erected a work of de- 

 fence and called it Fort Wayne, which name the town now 

 there, bears. It is situated at the head of the Maumee river, 

 at the confluence of the St. Joseph's and the St. Mary's riv» 

 ers. 



On the 8th of August 1794, General Anthony Wayne with 

 his army reached the mouth of the Auglaize, a tributary of the 

 Maumee, forty five miles, or more below Fort Wayne, and the 

 same distance, by his computation, above the British post, on 

 the Maumee. Here, in the forks of these rivers. General 

 Wayne erected a strong military ^vork, and called it by a very 

 appropriate name, (as he did all his posts) Fort Defiance. 

 The General fully informed himself of the strength of the en- 

 emy, and that the British and Indians, numbered only about 

 two thousand, whereas his own regulars, were about as nu- 

 merous as the enemy, besides eleven hundred mounted men, 

 whom he had with him, from Kentucky, under the command 

 of General Scott. This gave General Wayne a decided ad- 

 vantage over the enemj'^, as he thought, and as it proved to be. 

 But notwithstanding his superiority, in numbers; notwith- 

 standing the high discipline of his troops, and their patriotic 

 ardor, for a battle ; yet he offered terms of peace to the ene- 

 my and waited for the answer. The enemy wanted war, 

 not peace; so on the 15th day of August, 1794, General 

 Wayne left Fort Defiance, and marched down the Maumee, 



