208 ' TRAVELS THKOtf&lt LOWER CANADA: 
conduct, the knowledge and disci pine of re¬ 
gular troops were combined with all the cun¬ 
ning and stratagem of the antagonists. 
All this time the Indians kept retreating, 
they had done formerly before St. Clair; and 
without being able to bring on, a decisive en¬ 
gagement General Wayne proceeded even to 
the Miami of the Lakes, so called in contra-* 
distinction to another River Miami, which 
empties itself into the Ohio. Here it w as that 
that curious correspondence in respect to Fort 
Miami took place* the substance of which was 
related in most of the English and American 
prints, and by which General Wayne exposed 
himself to the censure of many of bis country-* 
men, and General, then Colonel Campbell, 
who commanded in the fort, gained the public 
thanks of the traders in London. 
The Miami Fort, situated on the river of 
the same name, was built by the English in 
the year 1793 , at which time there w as some 
reason to imagine that the disputes existing 
between Great Britain and the United States- 
would not have been quite so amicably settled, 
perhaps, as they have been ; at least that doubt¬ 
less must have been the opinion of govern¬ 
ment, otherwise they would not have given 
orders for the construction of a fort within the 
boundary line of the United states, a eircimx- 
stance which could not fail to excite the indig- 
