be cautious, and he answered that, though he would at once advance towards the Indian towns, to threaten the tribes, he would not run the least unnecessary risk.  Accordingly he shifted his army to a place some eighty miles north of Cincinnati, where he encamped for the winter, building a place of strength which he named Greeneville in honor of his old comrade in arms, General Greene.  He sent forward a strong detachment of his troops to the site of St. Clair’s defeat, where they built a post which was named Fort Recovery.  The discipline of the army steadily improved, though now and then a soldier deserted, usually fleeing to Kentucky, but in one or two cases striking through the woods to Detroit.  The bands of auxiliary militia that served now and then for short periods with the regulars, were of course much less well trained and less dependable.

    Indians Attack the Convoys.

The Indians were always lurking about the forts, and threatening the convoys of provisions and munitions as they marched slowly from one to the other.  Any party that left a fort was in imminent danger.  On one occasion the commander of Fort Jefferson and his orderly were killed and scalped but three hundred yards from the fort.  A previous commander of this fort while hunting in this neighborhood had been attacked in similar fashion, and though he escaped, his son and a soldier were slain.  On another occasion a dozen men, near the same fort, were surprised while haying; four were killed and the other eight captured, four of whom were burned at the stake. [Footnote:  Bradley MSS., Journal, entries of Feb. 11, Feb. 24, June 24, July 12, 1792.]

Before Wayne moved down the Ohio a band of Kentucky mounted riflemen, under major John Adair, were attacked under the walls of one of the log forts—­Fort St. Clair—­as they were convoying a large number of packhorses.  The riflemen were in camp at the time, the Indians making the assault at dawn.  Most of the horses were driven off or killed, and the men fled to the fort, which, Adair dryly remarked, proved “a place of safety for the bashful”; but he rallied fifty, who drove off the Indians, killing two and wounding others.  Of his own men six were killed and five wounded. [Footnote:  Am.  State Papers, iv., 335.  Adair to Wilkinson, Nov. 6, 1792.]

    Defeat of a Detachment.

Wayne’s own detachments occasionally fared as badly.  In the fall of 1793, just after he had advanced to Greeneville, a party of ninety regulars, who were escorting twenty heavily laden wagons, were surprised and scattered, a few miles from the scene of Adair’s misadventure. [Footnote:  Bradley MSS., Journal, entry of October 17, 1793.] The lieutenant and ensign who were in command and five or six of their men were slain, fighting bravely; half a dozen were captured; the rest were panic struck and fled without resistance.  The Indians took off about seventy horses, leaving the wagons standing in the middle of