See also:ANTHONY See also:WAYNE (1745-1796)
, See also:American soldier, was See also:born in the township of Easttown, See also:Chester See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 1st of See also:January 1745, of a See also:Yorkshire See also:family
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As a boy he exhibited a marked See also:bent toward a military See also:life
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He was educated in See also:Philadelphia, and was a surveyor in Pennsylvaniaand (1765) in Nova See also:Scotia, where he was See also:agent for a proposed See also:colony
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He married in 1766 and passed the next few years on the Chester county See also:farm inherited from his See also:father, holding some See also:minor offices and after 1774 taking an active See also:part upon various patriotic committees
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Having recruited and organized the See also:Fourth Pennsylvania See also:battalion of See also:Continental troops, he first saw active service at its See also:head in See also:Canada during the See also:retreat of See also:Benedict See also:Arnold after the See also:Quebec See also:campaign
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His excellent behaviour at the skirmish of Three See also:Rivers led See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Schuyler to See also:place him for some months in command of See also:Ticonderoga
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While at this See also:post, on the 21st of See also:February 1777, he was commissioned brigadier-See also:general
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In See also:April See also:Washington ordered him to take command of the " Pennsylvania See also:Line " at See also:Morristown, and he rendered distinguished service at See also:Brandywine and See also:Germantown, and by his coolness and courage at See also:Monmouth, after the retreat of General See also:Charles See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee, did much to See also:save the See also:day for the Americans
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Later in 1778 See also:political See also:necessity led to his being superseded by St Clair, his ranking officer, in the command of the See also:regular Pennsylvania troops, but upon Washington's recommendation he organized a new See also:Light See also:Infantry See also:corps, with which he performed the most daring exploit of the See also:War of See also:Independence—the recapture of Stony Point by a midnight attack (15-16 See also:July 1779) at the point of the See also:bayonet
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This well-planned enterprise aroused the greatest See also:enthusiasm throughout the See also:country and won for See also:Wayne the popular soubriquet " Mad See also:Anthony." Upon the disbanding of the Light Infantry corps, Wayne, again in command of the Pennsylvania line, rendered effective service in counteracting the effect of Benedict Arnold's See also:treason and of the See also:mutiny of the Pennsylvania troops
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In 1781 he was sent See also:south to join General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene, but in See also:Virginia was deflected to aid See also:Lafayette against See also:Lord See also:Cornwallis
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After the American success at See also:Yorktown, Wayne served with such marked success in See also:Georgia, that the See also:state rewarded him with a large See also:rice See also:plantation (which proved a See also:financial failure) and See also:Congress breveted him See also:major-general
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In 1792 Washington offered him the command of the regular See also:army with the See also:rank of major-general to fight the hostile See also:Indians See also:north-See also:west of the See also:Ohio, who had been rendered insolent by their successes over General See also:Josiah Harmar in 1790 and General See also:Arthur St Clair in 1791, and indirectly to compel the See also:British to yield the posts they held on the American See also:side of the lakes
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Wayne spent the See also:winter of 1792–1793 in recruiting his troops near See also:Pittsburg and in drilling them for effective service in the reorganized army
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The See also:government continued its efforts to induce the Indians to allow See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlements beyond the Ohio, but a See also:mission in .1793 ended in a failure
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Meanwhile Wayne had transferred his troops toFort Washington(See also:Cincinnati), and upon learning of the failure of the negotiations, advanced the greater part of his forces to See also:Greenville, a post on a See also:branch of the See also:Great See also:Miami, about 8o m. north of Cincinnati
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During the winter he also established an outpost at the See also:scene of St Clair's defeat
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The Indians attacked this post, Fort Recovery, in See also:June 1794, but were repulsed with considerable slaughter
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See also:Late in July Wayne's See also:legion of regulars, numbering about 2000, was reinforced by about 1600 See also:Kentucky See also:militia under General Charles See also:Scott, and the combined forces advanced to the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, where Fort See also:Defiance was constructed
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Here Wayne made a final effort to treat with the Indians, and upon being rebuffed, moved forward and encountered them on the loth of See also:August in the See also:battle of Fallen Timbers, fought near the falls of the Maumee, and almost under the walls of the British post Fort Miami
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This decisive defeat, supplemented by the Treaty of Greenville, which he negotiated with the Indians on the 3rd of August 1795, resulted in opening the North-west to See also:civilization
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Wayne retained his position as See also:commander of the army after its reorganization, and he rendered service in quelling the proposed filibustering expeditions from Kentucky against the See also:Spanish dominions, and also took the See also:lead in occupying the See also:lake posts delivered up by the British
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While engaged in this service he died at See also:Erie, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of See also:December 1796, and was interred there
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In 1809 his remains were removed to St See also:David's See also:Churchyard, See also:Radnor, Pennsylvania
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See Charles J
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Munsell, (ed.), Wayne's Orderly See also:Book of the See also:Northern Army at Fort Ticonderoga and See also:Mount Independence (See also:Albany, 1859) ; See also:Boyer, A See also:Journal of Wayne's Campaign (Cincinnati, 1866) ; See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Clark, A Journal of Major-General Anthony Wayne's Campaign against the See also:Shawnee Indians (See also:MSS. owned by R
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Spears, Anthony Wayne (New York, 1903)
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