The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . tores weresent on in the most infamous order. All these mattersso worried St. Clair that he was worn out at the begin-ning of the campaign ; and the continued delinquenciesof the contractor were one among the many primarycauses of defeat. On the 8th of October, when forty-four and one-quartermiles from Fort Washington, the flank guards fired un-successfully upon an Indian, the first one seen upon themarch; four days later the marksmen killed the savage 1 Diary of Colonel Winthrop Sargent, Adjutant-general of the UnitedStates army during the campaign
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . tores weresent on in the most infamous order. All these mattersso worried St. Clair that he was worn out at the begin-ning of the campaign ; and the continued delinquenciesof the contractor were one among the many primarycauses of defeat. On the 8th of October, when forty-four and one-quartermiles from Fort Washington, the flank guards fired un-successfully upon an Indian, the first one seen upon themarch; four days later the marksmen killed the savage 1 Diary of Colonel Winthrop Sargent, Adjutant-general of the UnitedStates army during the campaign of 1791. The original manuscriptof Colonel Sargents diary was printed in 1851 in an edition of forty-six copies, with two plates, for George Wymberley - Jones, as thefourth of the series of Wormsloe quartos. The diary was then in thepossession of Winthrop Sargent, of Philadelphia, a grandson of ColonelSargent. The above quotations are made from the copy presented toPeter Force by Mr. Wymberly Jones, and now in the Library of Con-gress. 354. ST. CLAIR S ADVANCE DISCOVERED UNITED STATES WIN NORTHWEST POSTS they encountered, and secured a quantity of fresh peltryand four or five horses. So plentiful was the game andso great the temptation to kill it, that even the penaltyof a hundred lashes could not keep the militia fromfiring, thus demoralizing discipline. On the 14th, sixty-eight and a half miles from Cincinnati, Fort Jeffersonwas laid out as a square log fort with four bastions, on a pretty rising ground, terminating in gentle and lowdescents to east and west to a prairie. By the 17th,but one days rations and one days allowance of liquorremained; the forage Avas nearly exhausted, and evenhad the troops been well disciplined matters would havebeen extremely serious. As it was the militia were dis-contented and insubordinate ; and, as the terms of theirenlistment were about to expire, they were beginning toprepare to go home. Heavy rains and snow flurriesadded to the discomfort
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