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nation of the people thereof. General Wayne, 
it would appear, had received no positive or¬ 
ders from his government to make himself 
master of it: could he have gained possession of 
it, however, by a coup-de-main, without in¬ 
curring any loss, he thought that it could not 
but have been deemed an acceptable piece of 
service by the public, from whom he should 
have received unbounded applause. Vanity 
was his ruling passion, and actuated by it on 
this occasion, he resolved to trv what he could 
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do to obtain possession of the fort. Colonel 
Campbell, however, by his spirited and manly 
answer to the summons that was sent him, to 
surrender the fort on account of its being 
situated within the boundary line of the States, 
soon convinced the American general, that he 
was not to be shaken by his remonstrances or 
intimidated by his menaces, and that his two 
hundred men, who composed the garrison, had 
sufficient resolution to resist the attacks of his 
army of three thousand, whenever he thought 
proper to march against the fort. The main 
division of the American army, at this time, 
lay at the distance of about four miles from 
the fort; a small detachment from it, however, 
was concealed in the woods at a very little 
distance from the fort, to be ready at the call 
of General W ayne, who, strange to tell, when 
he found he was not likely to get possession of 
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