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Rh Wayne refused to consider the plan —and throughout the remainder of Clark's journal his words are well-nigh abusive of General Wayne's whole management of the campaign. The dare-devil Wayne's caution at this strategic juncture of this important campaign portrays an element of steadiness for which the hero of Stony Point has perhaps never received sufficient credit.

On the eighth of August, after marching through five miles of cornfields, where were "vegetables of every kind in abundance," according to Boyer, the tired Legion came in view of the Maumee, of which they and a whole nation had heard so much. The spot