having killed enough. By this effort on his
part many lives were spared.

After this defeat, so unlooked for by the
United States, General Wayne

, who had suc-
ceeded General St. Clair, arrived with his army
upon the location where that officer had been
defeated, in the 9th month, (Sept.) 1793, and
immediately built Fort Wayne. The next year
he brought the Indians to a decisive engage-
ment in the vicinity, in which they were over-
thrown with great slaughter. This humiliation
lessened their high estimate of their own strength
and disposed them to peace, and a treaty was
concluded between them and General Wayne,
who acted as a commissioner of the United
States, at Grenville, (1794), by which the tribes
northwest of the river Ohio, gave up the lands
so long the object of contention, and accepting
a reservation in the neighborhood of the Lakes,
came under the protection of the United States,
upon terms at that time considered mutually
satisfactory and beneficial.

The Little Turtle

, who appears to have had a
just idea of the importance of the lands about
to be ceded to our government, remained for a
long time inflexible, resolved upon procuring
more favorable conditions. He was deeply at-
tached to the country which had been his birth-
place, and in common with all his brethren
considered it belonged to the Indians by right
of possession from the Great Spirit, who, they