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a faint resistance, and then tied with precipi¬ 
tancy. 
On his arrival at Philadelphia, in the be¬ 
ginning of the year 1796, I was introduced to 
General Wayne, and I had then an opportu¬ 
nity of seeing the plan of all his Indian cam¬ 
paigns. A most pompous account was given 
of this victory, and the plan of it excited, as 
indeed it well might, the wonder and admira¬ 
tion of all the old officers who saw it. The 
Indians were represented as drawn up in three 
lines, one behind the other, and after receiving 
with firmness the charge of the American 
army, as endeavouring with great skill and 
adroitness to turn its flanks, when, by the sud¬ 
den appearance of the Kentucky riflemen and 
the light cavalry, they were put to flight. 
From the regularity with which the Indians 
fought on this occasion, it was argued that 
they must doubtless have been conducted by 
British officers of skill and experience. How. 
absurd this whole plan was however, was, 
plainly to be deduced from the following cir¬ 
cumstance, allowed both by the general and 
his aids de camp, namely, that during the 
whole action the American army did not see 
fifty Indians; and indeed every person who 
has read an account of the Indians, must know 
that they never come into the field in such re¬ 
gular array, but always fight under covert. 
