The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . right and left, with destruc-tive effect. Again they pushed on, giving the enemy notime to reload or rally for another stand. Soon, in everydirection, they were being forced back by the impetuousonset of Waynes veterans. In the rear, the men of thesecond line were madly racing after the first. Theynever caught up with it. The battle was won withoutthem. Even the horse had found a way round the en-emys flank in time to do deadly work wdth their every quarter of the field they could be seen ridingdown flying savages. Scores were trample
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . right and left, with destruc-tive effect. Again they pushed on, giving the enemy notime to reload or rally for another stand. Soon, in everydirection, they were being forced back by the impetuousonset of Waynes veterans. In the rear, the men of thesecond line were madly racing after the first. Theynever caught up with it. The battle was won withoutthem. Even the horse had found a way round the en-emys flank in time to do deadly work wdth their every quarter of the field they could be seen ridingdown flying savages. Scores were trampled under footby the eager horsemen. After the chase had been keptup for two miles, a recall was sounded. The charge hadbeen so decisive, the pursuit so swift, that half of thearmy could not get near the enemy. 186 Waynes campaign, 1794 The Indians could not rally again. AYayne had dealtthem a death-blow, and they felt it as such. With nn-sparing hand he now destroyed their ripening he had turned the smiling valley around him into. WAYNES CAMPAIGN AND EARLY OHIO SETTLEMENTS. a waste place, he marched slowly up to the forks of theMaumee, and there, on the site of the great Indian hold,he built Fort Wayne, the thing that St. Clair had plannedto do, but so signally failed in. Waynes campaign, i794 187 The ground where the battle was fought was ever afterknown as The Fallen Timbers. A fair city has risen onthe site of Fort Wayne. With a chain of forts, stretching from the Ohio nearlyto Lake Erie, the hostile tribes, east and west, were asgood as cut off from each other. They were doomed toa still further isolation by the evacuation of the Britishposts on the lakes, soon after; so that, in reality, theirlast hope had now perished. The restoring to us of ourown frontier was, perhaps, hastened by Waynes victoriouscampaign. His parting words to Washington had beenno idle boast, for, in truth, he had shown himself the veryman for the crisis. 1 Words to this effect are fou
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