Wayne,” by Charles J. Stille, p. 323.] Only rigorous and long continued discipline and exercise under a commander both stern and capable, could turn such men into soldiers fit for the work Wayne had before him.  He saw this at once, and realized that a premature movement meant nothing but another defeat; and he began by careful and patient labor to turn his horde of raw recruits into a compact and efficient army, which he might use with his customary energy and decision.  When he took command of the army—­or “Legion,” as he preferred to call it—­the one stipulation he made was that the campaign should not begin until his ranks were full and his men thoroughly disciplined.

    He Makes a Winter Camp on the Ohio.

Towards the end of the summer of ’92 he established his camp on the Ohio about twenty-seven miles below Pittsburgh.  He drilled both officers and men with unwearied patience, and gradually the officers became able to do the drilling themselves, while the men acquired the soldierly self-confidence of veterans.  As the new recruits came in they found themselves with an army which was rapidly learning how to manoeuvre with precision, to obey orders unhesitatingly, and to look forward eagerly to a battle with the foe.  Throughout the winter Wayne kept at work, and by the spring he had under him twenty-five hundred regular soldiers who were already worthy to be trusted in a campaign.  He never relaxed his efforts to improve them; though a man of weaker stuff might well have been discouraged by the timid and hesitating policy of the National Government.  The Secretary of War, in writing to him, laid stress chiefly on the fact that the American people desired at every hazard to avert an Indian war, and that on no account should offensive operations be undertaken against the tribes.  Such orders tied Wayne’s hands, for offensive operations offered the only means of ending the war; but he patiently bided his time, and made ready his army against the day when his superiors should allow him to use the weapon he had tempered.

    In Spring He Shifts His Camp to Near Cincinnati. 
    His Second Winter Camp at Greeneville.

In May, ’93, he brought his army down the Ohio to Fort Washington, and near it established a camp which he christened Hobson’s Choice.  Here he was forced to wait the results of the fruitless negotiations carried on by the United States Peace Commissioners, and it was not until about the 1st of October that he was given permission to begin the campaign.  Even when he was allowed to move his army forward he was fettered by injunctions not to run any risks—­and of course a really good fighting general ought to be prepared to run risks.  The Secretary of War wrote him that above all things he was to remember to hazard nothing, for a defeat would be fraught with ruinous consequences to the country.  Wayne knew very well that if such was the temper of the country and the Government, it behooved him to