a future Cherokee
paper.
30 Wayne's victory, L 794 (p. 78): Aiter tbe successive failures of Harmar and
si Clair in their efforts against the Ohio tribes the chief command was assigned, in
1793, t" Major-General Anthony Wayne, who had already distinguished himself by
his fighting qualities during the Revolution. Having built Fort Recovery on the
site "i >t Clair's defeat, he made that post his headquarters through the winter
of 1793-94. In the summer of 1794 he advanced down the Maumee with an army
of 3,000 men, two-thirds of whom were regulars, tin August I'd he encountered the
confederated Indian forces near the head of the Maumee rapids at a point know n as
the Fallen Timbers and defeated them with great slaughter, tbe pursuit being fol-
lowed up by the cavalry until the Indians took refuge underthe guns of the
British garrison at Fort Miami, just below the rapids. His own toss was only 33
killed and 100 wounded, of w hom 1 1 afterward died of their wound-. The loss ofthe
Indians and their white auxiliaries was believed to be more than double this. The
Indian force was supposed to nn ii dier 2,000, while, on account of the impetuosity oi
Urn ne'- charge, the number of his troops actually engaged did not exceed 900. On
account of this defeat and the subsequent devastation of their towns and fields by
the victorious army the Indian- were compelled to sue tor peace, which was granted
by the treaty eon. -hided at Greenville, Ohio, August :!. 1795, by which the trihis
represented ceded awaj nearly their whole territory in Ohio. Authorities. Wayne's
report and related