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186 accordingly dubbed "Hobson's Choice." The encampment extended to within four hundred yards of the village of Cincinnati, according to the Posey journal. From this village and its stock "of ardent spirit and caitiff wretches to dispose of it" Wayne was anxious to be separated.

The summer passed slowly, and each day's tidings from the north was awaited with such patience as could be mustered. Faithful drilling, interrupted by fevers and influenza, was the order of the day, according to General Posey's record. The number of challenges and duels suggests something of the social order. On one occasion an officer challenged one of his superiors who, in reply, had him arrested to obviate an encounter. In June a premature report came that the peace commissioners had failed in their mission. "We now have but one alternative left," wrote Posey, "and this is We must meet the Savage foe, The Emortal Washington at the Head of our Government, and the Old hero Genundefined Wayne and His well disciplined Legion, we have little to fear accept our god and fear him in love." The summer