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208 (the old Shane's Crossings), Mercer County, Ohio.

On the fourth the army hurried on about eleven miles to "a small, dirty water," as Clark described it, "a branch of the Glaize [Auglaize] River," where camp was fortified for the night. The day after, a march of equal length "down the creek" to the camp described by Boyer as "Camp forty-four miles in advance of Fort Recovery." Wayne's camps were each proof against insult from the enemy, which accounts for his encamping early each afternoon. On the afternoon of August 6, the army reached the banks of the celebrated "Glaize," the Auglaize River. Here, according to Posey, a stronger encampment than usual was built, named Fort Loramie.

As the Maumee was neared the feeling of the army was intense. While at Fort Adams, Wayne had made feints at cutting two roads, one down the St. Mary River and another northwest straight toward Roche de Bout. These routes were both opened for some distance, that down the St. Mary at least as far as the famous ford at Shane's Crossing—the present Rock-