1 7 9 4 the horde of savages in the vicinity of your post which terminated gloriously to the American arms, but had it continued until the Indians etc were driven under the influence of the post and guns you mention they would not have much impeded the progress of the Victorious Army under my command." The British commander then complained of "those insults you have offered to the British flag flying at this fort, by approaching within pistol shot of my works, not only singly, but in numbers, with arms in their hands. Should you, after this, continue to approach my post in the threatening manner you are at this moment doing, my indispensable duty to my king and country and the honor of my profession will oblige me to have recourse to those measures which thousands of either nation may hereafter have cause to regret." Wayne, in his turn, informed Campbell that "It becomes my duty to desire, and I do hereby desire and demand in the name of the President of the United States, that you immediately desist from any further act of hostility or aggression

The

Finishing
Touches

by withdrawing the troops, artillery and stores under your order and direction forthwith, and removing to the nearest post occupied by His Britannic Majesty's troops at the peace of 1783, and which you will be permitted to do unmolested by the troops under my command." But Campbell did not go and "Mad Anthony" did not venture to make an attack. According to doubtful tradition, Wayne then built a blockhouse nearer the mouth of the Maumee, and did it so expeditiously that he called it Fort Industry; its site is still pointed out at the intersection of Summit and Monroe streets in the city of Toledo. Then the Americans destroyed all the Indian villages in the neighborhood and all the houses and buildings of the British agents and traders including that of McKee.

This work completed, Wayne withdrew to Fort Defiance where his army rested for two weeks. Then, as the Indians still refused to submit, he marched his command up the river sweeping away corn-fields and villages for

fifty miles on each side of the stream and, near the junc- 17 9 4 tion of the Saint Marys and Saint Joseph rivers, built 1 7 9 5

Fort Wayne in 1795

Fort Wayne. The
enemy did not
make any serious
resistance and the
troops spent six
weeks in destroy-
ing Indian towns,
corn, and stores.
Leaving a garri-
son in the new
fort, Wayne then
returned to

Greenville and went into winter quarters.

The Indians were sore put to it to live through the The

Greenville
Treaty

in

The Commander in Chief as " Sote Commissioner

behalf of the United States of America for settling att Controversus and for restoring harmony and friendly intercourse between bu saud United States, and the Indian Tubes North West of the Chic" inds il to be his indispensible duty. lo to forbid and prohibit, all and lesson or Missons wokamsovers from trading or trafficking with any or Indians for any kind of Goods Stores Wares or Moschiandize whalsciver except these who may be ve duty licenced for the

Più Commanors in Chier is under the Avsolute the

Page of General Wayne's Orderly Book at the Time his Headquarters
were at Greenville

winter. "Their few cattle, and many even of their dogs,
died;" they were disheartened by defeat and were sorely
indignant because the British had not given them the

1795 aid they had expected. Despite Simcoe's efforts, they sent ambassadors to Wayne. Early in June, 1795, representatives of the various tribes began to gather at

Greenville and at last more than eleven

hundred Indians were assembled; a formal peace was concluded in August. The captives of twenty years were given up; husbands and wives were reunited, and some parents found long-lost children who had forgotten their native language and preferred the barbarian life to that of their fathers. The Indians agreed to cede what is now southeastern Indiana and southern Ohio and the hundred and fifty thousand acres near the Falls of the Ohio (Virginia's grant to George Rogers Clark and his followers) and sixteen other tracts about Fort Defiance, Detroit, the mouth of the Chicago River, Fort Wayne, and elsewhere. In return, the United States agreed to acknowledge their right to their other lands and promised them annuities amounting to nine thousand five hundred dollars. The treaty thus concluded remained unbroken until Tecumseh's conspiracy, sixteen years later. The national government set apart about four thousand square miles south of the treaty line as military bounty lands, in fulfilment of promises made. Wayne had proved

himself to be wise in diplomacy as well as brave in war. 1 795 After his treaty with the Indians, the pioneer took heart, a marvelous migration to the Ohio country set in, and many of Wayne's soldiers took up land and became settlers of the country that they had wrested from the Indian. In July, 1797, by proclamation, Governor Saint Clair established Jefferson County, with boundaries that now include about a dozen counties of northeastern Ohio.

The chief credit for the issue of the war is due to Wayne. Victory and His brilliant victory at the Fallen Timber, "one of the Death most striking and weighty feats

in the winning of the West,"
broke the spirit of the Indians
and had a decided influence
upon diplomatic negotiations
then proceeding at London.
He did not, however, live long
to enjoy his new laurels. After
a visit to the East, he returned
to the Northwest to receive the
surrender of the British posts
in that region under the terms
of Jay's treaty, and died at
Presque Isle, now Erie, Penn-
sylvania. He was buried on
what was known as Garrison
Hill; in 1809, his remains were
removed to the churchyard of
Saint David's Church at Radnor, Pennsylvania, near the
place of his birth, where the Pennsylvania society of the
Cincinnati erected a monument in his honor.

December 15, 1796

Spanish
Intrigue

In Kentucky and Tennessee

CHAPTER VII

SPANISH

W

DIPLOMACY

AND THE SOUTHWEST

HILE England was holding a large part of the Northwest, Spain was refusing to recognize the validity of the treaty of 1783 and intriguing to acquire the Southwest. These intrigues took two forms: efforts to induce the settlers in the Kentucky and Tennessee regions to withdraw from the Union and to cast in their lot with Spain, and efforts to stir up the Indians, thus to prevent the extension of American settlement.

Reference has already been made to the part played by James Wilkinson in furthering Spanish designs. He and others were greatly aided by the anxiety of the western people to obtain an outlet by way of the Mississippi for their surplus products and by their indignation at the indifference of the North and East to what was of vital importance to them. As it was generally believed in the West that the government under the constitution would consent to Jay's proposed surrender of American claims to the navigation of the Mississippi, ninety per cent. of the Kentucky settlers opposed the adoption of that instrument. In July, 1788, while the federal constitution was still under consideration, a Kentucky convention assembled to consider western interests. Under the lead of Wilkinson and Judge Sebastian, another Spanish tool, a minority of the convention favored a declaration of independence. At another convention held in November, Wilkinson tried in vain to stir up a spirit of revolt that would