Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nance,and apparently very crafty andsubtle. He was the son of aMiami chief, and was forty-fiveyears of age when he led his warriorsagainst poor St. Clair. His warlike train-ing was of that s
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nance,and apparently very crafty andsubtle. He was the son of aMiami chief, and was forty-fiveyears of age when he led his warriorsagainst poor St. Clair. His warlike train-ing was of that stern and hardening kindwhich was never omitted in his nation. It was on the banks of tlie IMianii, orMaumee, in 1794, that General AnthonyWayne, the successor of St. Clair in thecommand of the American army in theMiami country, dealt a retributive andstaggering blow to the jiowcr of the In-dians in that vast and magnificent region,—a blow from which they never the terrible shock which thenation received by the defeat of St. Clair, GEEAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 151 the brave Wayne— mad Anthony, as hewas commonly called, on account of hisreckless courage,—at once made the bestof his way to the theater of action, for itwas easy to foresee, what indeed immedi-ately ensued, that, under the encourage-ment of the successes against Harmer andSt. Clair, all the treaties would be dis-. solved, and a general savage confederacyformed against the United States. On the eighth of August, 1794, Waynehad reached the confluence of the AuGlaize and the Miamis of the lakes, with-out opposition. The richest and mostextensive settlements of the western In-dians were here. Halting at this place,a few days, the Americans threw up someworks of defense. A fort had also beenbuilt on the St. Mary, twenty-four milesin advance of Fort Recovery. Unwilling to lose time, or to be in anyway outwitted, Wayne moved forward onthe fifteenth of August, and on the six-teenth met his messenger
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