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ters of General Anthony Wayne, commanding the army of the United States, northwest of theOhio, between that officer, acting as Commission-er for the United States, and the Sachems, Chiefs and warriors of twelve tribes of Indians. The treaty was mainly the result of a victory ob-tained by General Wayne over the Indians in a battle fought the previous year, near the Mau-mee* * At the time of the treaty called the Miami of the Lake. river, and terminated the hostilities which for nearly twenty years had been carried on be-tween the Indians, northwest of the Ohio, and the white settlers in Kentucky and western Vir-ginia. Sundry abortive efforts had been made by the government to procure peace. Partial treaties were entered into, which had no effect in restraining the great body of the tribes, and several military expeditions, which had been sent into their country to subdue them, met with disasters, and by their failure only strengthened the Indians. In April, 1793, three Commission-ers, with ample powers, were sent to negotiate a treaty, and were intrusted to offer much better terms than were afterwards granted the Indians by the treaty of Greeneville. In the instructions given them it was stated, that the Society of Friends had, with the approbation of the President of the United States, decided to send some of their respectable members in order to contribute their influence to induce the hostile Indians to