battle, second in command.--R. G. T.

[20] Early in September, 1791. St. Clair had 2,000 men,
fifty per cent less than had been promised him by the war
department.--R. G. T.

[21] Fort Hamilton, a stockade with four bastions, was on the
Big Miami, 24 miles from Fort Washington (Cincinnati), on the
site of the present Hamilton, O. Fort Jefferson, built of logs
laid horizontally, was six miles south of the present
Greenville, O. The army left Fort Jefferson, October
24.--R. G. T.

[22] The army then numbered 1,400 men, and was encamped at
the site of the present Fort Recovery, O., 55 miles away, as
the crow flies, from the head of the Maumee, the objective
point of the expedition.--R. G. T.

[23] He lay sick in his tent, when the action opened, but
arose and acted with remarkable courage throughout the fight.
General Butler was acting commandant while St. Clair was ill,
and was credibly informed by his scouts, the night before the
battle, of the proximity of the enemy. But he took no
precautions against surprise, neither did he communicate his
news to his superior. Upon Butler's head appears to rest much
of the blame for the disaster.--R. G. T.

[24] The Americans lost 37 officers and 593 men, killed and
missing, and 31 officers and 252 men, wounded. See _St. Clair
Papers_, edited by William Henry Smith (Cincinnati: Robert
Clarke & Co., 1882), for official details of the disaster. For
Simon Girty's part, consult Butterfield's _History of the
Girtys, passim._--R. G. T.

[25] St. Clair arrived at Fort Washington, on his return,
November 8--R. G. T.

[26] This expedition under Gen. Charles Scott, one of the
Kentucky committee of safety, was made in June, 1791, against
the Miami and Wabash Indians. It was followed in August by a
second expedition under Gen. James Wilkinson. In the course of
the second campaign, at the head of 500 Kentuckians, Wilkinson
laid waste the Miami village of L'Anguille, killing and
capturing 42 of the savages.--R. G. T.

[302] CHAPTER XVIII.

Neither the signal success of the expedition under General Scott, nor
the preparations which were being made by the general government, for
the more rigorous prosecution of the war against them, caused the
Indians to relax th