"Mad" Anthony Wayne 1795 Document Signed
Revolutionary War general (1745-1796) whose daring tactics earned him the nickname ‘Mad Anthony.’ Manuscript document signed "Anty. Wayne" one page, 7.5 x 5, October 20, 1795. A receipt issued at Greenville, Ohio, to the Clothier General, in part:
Sir Please to deliver fifteen pair of Shoes on the above return
Also signed by John Mills as adjutant general (Mills was Wayne's Adjutant in the Greeneville Campaign).
Some shadowing to his last name.
After demonstrating his exceptional military abilities at Ticonderoga, Stony Point, and West Point, Anthony Wayne served in the Pennsylvania legislature and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Following a year in the U.S. Congress, Wayne, at Washington's request, emerged from 'retirement' to lead an expedition in the Northwest Indian War. Following the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers and a subsequent scorched earth campaign of destroying villages, he negotiated the Treaty of Greenville which ended the war.
Revolutionary War general (1745-1796) whose daring tactics earned him the nickname ‘Mad Anthony.’ Manuscript document signed "Anty. Wayne" one page, 7.5 x 5, October 20, 1795. A receipt issued at Greenville, Ohio, to the Clothier General, in part:
Sir Please to deliver fifteen pair of Shoes on the above return
Also signed by John Mills as adjutant general (Mills was Wayne's Adjutant in the Greeneville Campaign).
Some shadowing to his last name.
After demonstrating his exceptional military abilities at Ticonderoga, Stony Point, and West Point, Anthony Wayne served in the Pennsylvania legislature and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Following a year in the U.S. Congress, Wayne, at Washington's request, emerged from 'retirement' to lead an expedition in the Northwest Indian War. Following the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers and a subsequent scorched earth campaign of destroying villages, he negotiated the Treaty of Greenville which ended the war.
Revolutionary War general (1745-1796) whose daring tactics earned him the nickname ‘Mad Anthony.’ Manuscript document signed "Anty. Wayne" one page, 7.5 x 5, October 20, 1795. A receipt issued at Greenville, Ohio, to the Clothier General, in part:
Sir Please to deliver fifteen pair of Shoes on the above return
Also signed by John Mills as adjutant general (Mills was Wayne's Adjutant in the Greeneville Campaign).
Some shadowing to his last name.
After demonstrating his exceptional military abilities at Ticonderoga, Stony Point, and West Point, Anthony Wayne served in the Pennsylvania legislature and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Following a year in the U.S. Congress, Wayne, at Washington's request, emerged from 'retirement' to lead an expedition in the Northwest Indian War. Following the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers and a subsequent scorched earth campaign of destroying villages, he negotiated the Treaty of Greenville which ended the war.