[94]Ironside to Gray, Mar. 15, 1787, _loc. cit._, V, 150. [95]Ironside to Gray, Feb. 16, 1787, _loc. cit._, V, 149. George Ironside was a leading trader in the Maumee valley. He was born in 1760 and died in 1830, at Amherstburg. For many years he was in the British Indian service. He was an M. A. of King’s College, Aberdeen and was known, even to the Americans, for his humanity and hospitality. [96]_A Narrative of Life on the Old Frontier, Henry Hay’s Journal from Detroit to the Mississippi River_, edited by M. M. Quaife, p. 224. [97]_Ibid._, p. 221. [98]_Ibid._, p. 241. [99]_Ibid._, p. 240. [100]_Ibid._, p. 260. Hay gives an interesting description of the “Natt”, the Indian symbol of war, carried about much like the Ancient Roman standards. [101]_above_, [p. 23.] [102]Quaife, _op. cit._, p. 226. [103]_Ibid._, p. 245. [104]_Ibid._, p. 237. [105]_Ibid._, p. 258. [106]_Ibid._, p. 245. [107]_Ibid._, p. 261. [108]_Indiana Historical Society Publications_, VII, 360. ^[109]“Gamelin’s Journal”, St. Clair Papers, II, pp. 155-160; _American State Papers_, Indian Affairs, I, P. 37. [109]_St. Clair Papers_, ed. Wm. Smith, II, 181. [110]_The Writings of George Washington_, ed. Jared Sparks, IX, 80-81. [111]_St. Clair Papers_, II, 181. [112]_Ibid._, 193. [113]Knox to St. Clair, Sept. 14, 1790, _St. Clair Papers_, II, p. 181. [114]_American State Papers, Indian Affairs_, I, p. 104-5. [115]Dorchester to Grenville, Nov. 10, 1790, including dispatches from A. McKee and others, Public Record Office (Colonial Series) CO-42; 73, London. [116]For the accounts of the battles see Harmar’s report in _ASP, Indian Affairs_, I, pp. 104; also the “Military Journal of Major Ebenezer Denny” in _Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania_, VII, 343-353. The heaviest action took place at Harmar’s ford at the end of Harmar Street. Here the regulars suffered severely while attempting to cross the Maumee in the face of the Indians’ fire. [117]_ASP, Indian Affairs_, I, 112. [118]_Ibid._, p. 112. [119]“Knox’s Instructions to St. Clair”, _Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections_, XXIV, 197-8. Chapter II The Establishment of Fort Wayne—Government Outpost of Defense, Diplomacy and Trade Wayne’s victorious “Legion” arrived at Miamitown on the evening of September 17, 1794. Lieutenant John Boyer, to whose journal we are indebted for the best account of the conditions relating to the construction of Fort Wayne, wrote on the day of the arrival: