ton anthony wayne right some the secretary of war, henry knox, he said we fought the native americans at the location of the fallen timbers. marching toayne is the fort, the native americans have reached it first. they expect to be able to go into the fort or have reinforcements sent out from the fort. campbell has been given specific instructions that he is not to intervene militarily. basically what that would be doing is declaring war on the united states of america. at this time great britain had no intention of declaring war unless they could win and really win big and they were not going to make the decision at the fort to do that. what ends up happening is the native americans now see the british were not going to fight with them. they leave very disheartened and very betrayed. forced the has native americans to reevaluate their alliances with the british and how they are going to withstand the onslaught of the settlers who are going to continue to push into their land. the battle of fallen timbers lasted two hours with the heaviest losses taking place at about 45 minutes. 30ar

when anthony wainwright's home to secretary of war henry knox, he says we have fought the native americans at the location of the fallen timbers. marching, wayne is the native americans have reached the fort first. they expect to be able to go into the fort or to have reinforcements sent out from the fort. campbell has been given specific instructions that he is not to intervene militarily. what that would be doing is declaring war on the united states. at this point in time, great britain had no intention of declaring war unless they could win and really win big. they were not going to make the decision to do that. the native americans now see that the british were not going to fight with them. they leave very disheartened and betrayed. forced themhas been to reevaluate their alliances with the british and how they are going to withstand the onslaught of the settlers who are going to continue to push into their land. the battle of fallen timbers lasted approximately two hours. the heaviest losses took place in 45 minutes. between 30 and 50 were lost on each side. although the losses were

henry knox, jedi darlington and we just mentioned duke forte, that's a last. alexander hamilton become a major general later in life, it's a who's who, and that's a moment i would take if i had to go back in time. i would pick being in the room at that time, just to think of who was in there. so. they're meeting to figure out the strategy, eventually, it becomes what we know in new jersey as the battle of mammoth. alexander hamilton right out in advance of the battle and doing reconnaissance, advance intelligence operation on horseback for both washington. and, yes they had the hamilton. they will be retreating, crawling through the middle of nowhere in new jersey. the quote was, quote, i will stay here and dive with you. let us all die here rather than retreat. a testament to bravery and thinking on his feet as well. as he is rallying the forces, just as washington comes onto the scene. suddenly, we have another aid to washington, riding and, quote, i'm happy to have it in my power. he was incessant in his endeavors. we don't know why, but in the army and ral

he has lafayette with him, henry knox and alexander hamilton. he turns to lafayette who has become his surrogate son and says simply, whom can we trust now? can you imagine what he was feeling? in the wake of this, knox and hamilton, everyone around him is going crazy. as knox would write nathanael greene, i cannot get arnold out of my head. this really messed with their whole sense of who they were. if this could happen this is really, fundamentally scary stuff. washington would be able to -- at this time, the french general had arrived and prior to washington's learning of this, he had met with the french in hartford, their first meeting. and, it was absolutely fundamentally important how the french were in force for the first time. he had to put the best face on it. he writes this incredible letter to his french counterpart where there is none of that passion. he says it is absolutely amazing that we have gone this far in the struggle and this has not yet happened. things like this are what happen in a revolution. that said, he then turned hi

he is been told train your men perfectly in this new strange organization henry knox came up with. gifted train for separate armies. if washington says go, you go and when. but you can't to be so aggressive in your training that you frighten the indians. he waits until from the spring of 1792. he is now ordered finally appear until the spring of 17. >> the battle comes apart with the battle. he even offers the ohio river. they still say no, that is some great hostility. stay out of our country forever. what really sets him off is this place. when he still negotiates with the indians. they come here and they build fort miami's here. the remnant of their forte. they come down here. i mean they will protect detroit. they are coming down here to arm the indians. all right. negotiations have failed. anthony wayne take your army and begin marching. and don't go towards kick younger. somewhere between greenville and the fort. and you must win. you have to win decisively. and keep marching to that fort. he was given quite an assignment. wayne it keeps sending out a runner. come and make a

when anthony wayne right some to the secretary of war, henry knox, he said we fought the native americans at the location of the fallen timbers. as anthony wayne is marching to the fort, the native americans have reached it first. they expect to be able to go into the fort or have reinforcements sent out from the fort. campbell has been given specific instructions that he is not to intervene militarily. basically what that would be doing is declaring war on the united states of america. at this time great britain had no intention of declaring war unless they could win and really win big and they were not going to make the decision at the fort to do that. what ends up happening is the native americans now see the british were not going to fight with them. they leave very disheartened and very betrayed. this battle has forced the native americans to reevaluate their alliances with the british and how they are going to withstand the onslaught of the settlers who are going to continue to push into their land. the battle of fallen timbers lasted two hours with the heaviest losses taking place