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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