Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
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Anthony Wayne was a soldier and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1780.
Wayne was one of the great generals in the Revolutionary War. Here he was an Indian fighter.
U.S. representative from Georgia, public official in Pennsylvania, and U.S. Army officer.
General Wayne commanded the mission of restoring American authority in Georgia, January-July 1782.
U.S. Army general.
American general during the Revolution and the Indian wars.
Anthony Wayne (1745-1796), American revolutionary general, promoted to Brigadier General in February 1777. In 1780, his brigade was part of Steuben's division in the Yorktown campaign.
Anthony Wayne was a Major-General and Commander of the United States Army.
General "Mad Anthony" Wayne had just attacked Cornwallis at Green Spring, Va., 1781 July 6.
Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) was a Brigadier-General in the Continental Army and later a Major-General in the United States Army.
U.S. representative of Georgia, public official of Pennsylvania, and U.S. Army officer
General Wayne commanded the mission of restoring American authority in Georgia, January-July, 1782.
Born in East Town, Penn. on Jan. 1, 1745, Anthony Wayne was a representative in the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1773. He entered the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, becoming a Colonel in 1775, and by the end of the campaign was a Brigadier General, eventually being promoted to Major General. Wayne joined Lafayette in Virginia in 1781. At the close of the war he was rewarded with a farm. Wayne was a member of the farming convention of 1787 and was a member of the U.S. Congress, 1791-1793. He concluded a treaty with tribes of Northwest Ohio in 1795. "Mad" Anthony Wayne died in Erie, Pennsylvania on Dec. 15, 1796.
American general.
Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He was placed in command of Pennsylvania troops early in the American Revolution, wintered with George Washington at Valley Forge, and led an advanced attack against the British at the battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. After Yorktown, Wayne, serving under Nathaniel Greene, was sent to oppose the British in Georgia. He retired from active service in 1783 as a brevet major-general, and received an 800 acre rice plantation, Richmond and Kew, from the state of Georgia. He served as a congressman for Georgia from 1791 to 1792.
Surveyor, soldier. Served in the Revolutionary War and led a campaign against the Indians in the Northwest Territory, 1793-1794.
In July of 1794, Wayne's regulars were reinforced by approx. 1600 Kentucky Militia. The combined forces advanced to Fort Defiance on the Miami River. After unsuccessful negotiation with the Indians, Wayne defeated them in the battle of Fallen Timbers. This defeat led to the treaty of Greenville signed on August 3, 1795 resulted in the opening of the Northwest to settlement.
Revolutionary War general who defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on the Maumee River, 1794, leading to their surrender at Greenville in 1795.
Notable Revolutionary War and frontier army commander. Major general victorious over the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794).
Anthony Wayne was a Pennsylvania landowner when he joined the Continental Army in 1776 as a Colonel. He was promoted to Brigadier General, and served reliably and prominently in the Revolutionary War, notably in the capture of a British fort at Stony Point, New York. He later served in the Georgia House of Representatives, and was named Commander in Chief of the fledgling U.S. Army by President Washington. In this capacity he won the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which effectively ended Native American resistance in the Midwest.
Father of Isaac Wayne.
Soldier of the Revolutionary War and early republic.
In April, 1792, Wayne was appointed major-general in command of the American army in the Northwest Territory (Legion of the United States). He spent 1792 and 1793 first in Pittsburgh and later at Hobson's Choice and Fort Greenville, Ohio, organizing and training his forces for war against the Indians. When U.S. peace commissioners returned in late August, 1793, after having declined to meet with the Indians who demanded an Ohio River boundary with the U.S., Wayne was free to begin his successful military campaign, which culminated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) and the Treaty of Greenville (1795).
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