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See also:WAYNE, See also:ANTHONY (1745-1796) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in the township of Easttown, See also:Chester See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 1st of See also:January 1745, of a See also:Yorkshire See also:family. As a boy he exhibited a marked See also:bent toward a military See also:life. He was educated in See also:Philadelphia, and was a surveyor in Pennsylvaniaand (1765) in Nova See also:Scotia, where he was See also:agent for a proposed See also:colony. He married in 1766 and passed the next few years on the Chester county See also:farm inherited from his See also:father, holding some See also:minor offices and after 1774 taking an active See also:part upon various patriotic committees. Having recruited and organized the See also:Fourth Pennsylvania See also:battalion of See also:Continental troops, he first saw active service at its See also:head in See also:Canada during the See also:retreat of See also:Benedict See also:Arnold after the See also:Quebec See also:campaign. His excellent behaviour at the skirmish of Three See also:Rivers led See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Schuyler to See also:place him for some months in command of See also:Ticonderoga. While at this See also:post, on the 21st of See also:February 1777, he was commissioned brigadier-See also:general. In See also:April See also:Washington ordered him to take command of the " Pennsylvania See also:Line " at See also:Morristown, and he rendered distinguished service at See also:Brandywine and See also:Germantown, and by his coolness and courage at See also:Monmouth, after the retreat of General See also:Charles See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee, did much to See also:save the See also:day for the Americans. Later in 1778 See also:political See also:necessity led to his being superseded by St Clair, his ranking officer, in the command of the See also:regular Pennsylvania troops, but upon Washington's recommendation he organized a new See also:Light See also:Infantry See also:corps, with which he performed the most daring exploit of the See also:War of See also:Independence—the recapture of Stony Point by a midnight attack (15-16 See also:July 1779) at the point of the See also:bayonet. This well-planned enterprise aroused the greatest See also:enthusiasm throughout the See also:country and won for Wayne the popular soubriquet " Mad Anthony." Upon the disbanding of the Light Infantry corps, Wayne, again in command of the Pennsylvania line, rendered effective service in counteracting the effect of Benedict Arnold's See also:treason and of the See also:mutiny of the Pennsylvania troops. In 1781 he was sent See also:south to join General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene, but in See also:Virginia was deflected to aid See also:Lafayette against See also:Lord See also:Cornwallis. After the American success at See also:Yorktown, Wayne served with such marked success in See also:Georgia, that the See also:state rewarded him with a large See also:rice See also:plantation (which proved a See also:financial failure) and See also:Congress breveted him See also:major-general. In 1792 Washington offered him the command of the regular See also:army with the See also:rank of major-general to fight the hostile See also:Indians See also:north-See also:west of the See also:Ohio, who had been rendered insolent by their successes over General See also:Josiah Harmar in 1790 and General See also:Arthur St Clair in 1791, and indirectly to compel the See also:British to yield the posts they held on the American See also:side of the lakes. Wayne spent the See also:winter of 1792–1793 in recruiting his troops near See also:Pittsburg and in drilling them for effective service in the reorganized army. The See also:government continued its efforts to induce the Indians to allow See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlements beyond the Ohio, but a See also:mission in .1793 ended in a failure. Meanwhile Wayne had transferred his troops toFort Washington(See also:Cincinnati), and upon learning of the failure of the negotiations, advanced the greater part of his forces to See also:Greenville, a post on a See also:branch of the See also:Great See also:Miami, about 8o m. north of Cincinnati. During the winter he also established an outpost at the See also:scene of St Clair's defeat. The Indians attacked this post, Fort Recovery, in See also:June 1794, but were repulsed with considerable slaughter. See also:Late in July Wayne's See also:legion of regulars, numbering about 2000, was reinforced by about 1600 See also:Kentucky See also:militia under General Charles See also:Scott, and the combined forces advanced to the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers, where Fort See also:Defiance was constructed. Here Wayne made a final effort to treat with the Indians, and upon being rebuffed, moved forward and encountered them on the loth of See also:August in the See also:battle of Fallen Timbers, fought near the falls of the Maumee, and almost under the walls of the British post Fort Miami. This decisive defeat, supplemented by the Treaty of Greenville, which he negotiated with the Indians on the 3rd of August 1795, resulted in opening the North-west to See also:civilization. Wayne retained his position as See also:commander of the army after its reorganization, and he rendered service in quelling the proposed filibustering expeditions from Kentucky against the See also:Spanish dominions, and also took the See also:lead in occupying the See also:lake posts delivered up by the British. While engaged in this service he died at See also:Erie, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of See also:December 1796, and was interred there. In 1809 his remains were removed to St See also:David's See also:Churchyard, See also:Radnor, Pennsylvania.
See Charles J. Still&, Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line (Philadelphia, 1893); J. Munsell, (ed.), Wayne's Orderly See also:Book of the See also:Northern Army at Fort Ticonderoga and See also:Mount Independence (See also:Albany, 1859) ; See also:Boyer, A See also:Journal of Wayne's Campaign (Cincinnati, 1866) ; See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Clark, A Journal of Major-General Anthony Wayne's Campaign against the See also:Shawnee Indians (See also:MSS. owned by R. C. Ballard Thruston); H. P. See also:Johnston, The Storming of Stony Point (New See also:York, 1900) ; J. R. Spears, Anthony Wayne (New York, 1903).
End of Article: WAYNE, ANTHONY (1745-1796)
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