works, and at half past eleven the troops moved forward in two columns for the assault. The right column consisted of one hundred and fifty men, with twenty picked men in advance to remove the abatis and other obstructions. The left column consisted of one hundred men, with a similar body in advance.

Every man had a piece of white paper fixed in his cap, to prevent mistaking their own men for the enemy, and the strictest orders were given not to fire a shot, but to trust wholly to the bayonet. Complete silence was to be kept, and any man disobeying these orders was to be instantly killed, on the principle that the death of one might save the lives of hundreds. Rewards were offered for the man who should first enter the works.

The marsh was reached without discovery, but delay was experienced here and also at the abatis, and the assault did not begin till twenty minutes after twelve. By this time involuntary noises had alarmed the garrison, who rushed to their guns and poured a tremendous fire of musketry and grape-shot upon the advancing columns. But, inspirited by the example of their commander and their officers, the men rushed resolutely forward, with levelled bayonets, and in a few minutes the two columns met in the midst of the enemy's works, both arriving at the same moment.

The rush had been so impetuous that the garrison suddenly found itself in the midst of a circle of foes, not firing a shot but dealing death with the bayonet. Thrown into a panic they hastened to surrender, and in a moment more the proud British flag came down. In the rush Wayne was struck in the forehead by a musket ball, and fell to the ground. Believing that he was mortally wounded, he asked to be carried forward,

that he might die in the fort. But he proved to be only stunned, and in a few minutes he recovered and was one of the first to enter the works.

The success was complete and had been achieved with little loss, while sixty-three of the garrison were killed and the rest taken prisoners, all the munitions and stores being captured. These were soon removed and the fort was destroyed, Washington's purpose having been achieved and the country made hopeful by a gallant deed. From that time forward General Wayne was fondly designated "Mad Anthony" by the admiring people. Congress voted him the thanks of the nation and a gold medal, and we may be sure that Washington added his warmest commendation.

This was Wayne's greatest feat during the war. In 1781 he was in Virginia during the advance of Lord Cornwallis from the South, and was on the James River when the British were crossing. Deceived by false information, he supposed that all the British army but the rear-guard had crossed, and made a hasty attack. But on rushing through a marsh and wood, he was astonished to see Cornwallis's whole army before him.

It was a critical situation, but Wayne, conceiving that the boldest was the best course under the circumstances, impetuously led his small force, about eight hundred in number, to the attack. Some sharp and close firing ensued, in which he lost more than a hundred men, but his bold assault enabled him to draw off the rest in safety, under cover of the wood. Cornwallis looked on the attack as a feint, in order to draw him into an ambuscade, and would not let his men pursue.

After the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown,

Washington sent Wayne to Georgia, where the enemy was making trouble. Taking command of the forces there, he soon had the British shut up in Savannah, and kept them there until the treaty of peace was signed. The Georgia legislature rewarded him with thanks and a farm, on which he lived for some years. As already stated, they rewarded General Greene in the same way.

Wayne, being given the brevet rank of major-general, retired to private life till 1793, his only public service in those years being in the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States. In the year named new military work was cut out for him. The western Indians had long been making trouble, and between 1783 and 1790 fifteen hundred soldiers were killed by them near the Ohio. General Harmar was sent against them, but met with a severe repulse. Then General St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory, led a force of two thousand men into the field. He was ambushed by the Indians, and suffered much more severely than Harmar had done. In this dilemma, President Washington, knowing that their success would embolden the savages to still more murders, and having had enough of blunders, selected Wayne to lead an expedition against them.

He had the right man for the work. Wayne, profiting by the mistakes of Harmar and St. Clair, raised a large force, went forward deliberately, and took every precaution against surprise, all the skilled woodcraft of the red men failing to deceive him. His plan was to occupy their country by a chain of posts, and he wintered at a wilderness post called Greenville, it being the summer of 1794 before he was prepared to strike. Then, on August 20, he met the savages at

Fallen Timbers, near where Toledo now stands, rushed their camp as he had done Stony Point years before, and so utterly defeated them that they gave no serious trouble for years afterwards. As some of the tribes continued in arms, he laid waste their country and built forts to hold them in awe. A year later the chiefs of the tribes came humbly in and signed a treaty of peace, by which they ceded to the government an immense tract of land, lying in Indiana and Michigan.

The gallant Wayne was now near the end of his career. During his return to the East, after completing his work among the Indians, he was taken sick, and died in a hut on Presque Isle, Lake Erie, on the 15th of December, 1796. He was buried on the lake shore, but some years later his remains were interred at Radnor, Pa., and a handsome monument was erected over them in 1809 by the Society of the Cincinnati.

BENJAMIN LINCOLN, THE RECEIVER OF THE SWORD OF CORNWALLIS

BENJAMIN LINCOLN, one of the leading generals of the Revolution, spent his first forty years of life on a Massachusetts farm, being born at Hingham, in that colony, January 23, 1733. He did not quite confine himself to the tilling of the earth, for he was several times elected to the legislature, was a member of the provisional congress of Massachusetts, and was a colonel of militia when the Revolution began. As such he was active in organizing the State troops and aiding in the siege of Boston. Massachusetts in 1776 gave him the rank of brigadier-general, and in February, 1777, at the suggestion of General Washington, he was appointed by Congress a major-general in the regular army. This rapid promotion was a just reward for his military merit, which Washington was quick to recognize.

His first notable service was in June, 1776, when he commanded the expedition which cleared the harbor of Boston of British vessels. Thence he marched in October with a body of militia to New York, reinforcing Washington after his defeat on Long Island. For several months he commanded at intervals a division or a detachment of Washington's army, occupying positions in which courage, vigilance and caution were strongly demanded.

On one occasion, when in command of about five hundred men in an outpost position near Bound Brook, N. J., his patrols neglected their duty and permitted