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Wayne refused to consider the plan[1]—and throughout the remainder of Clark's journal his words are well-nigh abusive of General Wayne's whole management of the campaign.[2] 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
- ↑ Just as St. Clair refused Butler's proposal at Fort Jefferson in the campaign of 1791.
- ↑ The scheme [of surprising the Indians] was proposed, and certain success insured if attempted. Gen Wilkinson suggested the plan to the Commander-in-Chief, but it was not his plan, nor perhaps his wish, to embrace so probable a means for ending the war by compelling them to peace. This was not the first occasion or opportunity which presented itself to our observant General [Wilkinson] for some grand stroke of enterprise, but the commander-in-chief rejected all and every of his plans"—fol. 42. Clark's criticisms and objections fill his remaining pages—fols. 42–50, 52, 57, 58, 59.
