| Show GEEORGE GENERAL As the nation begins this year ot of celebration to its greatest man george georga washington every man who helped him fight the battle tor for our independence in his glory and claims national interest in tho the front rank ot of these dashing officers says the united states slates george washington on bicentennial commission waa mad anthony wayne whose namo name Is familiar to every american boy aho loves a hero interest attaches to anthony wayno wa yno from tho the moment ot of his birth for lie he I 1 picked now years day iselt tor for that important event lie he first saw tha light at East iown town rz P on january 1 1746 1745 which makes this day his birthday anity anniversary W wayne ayne was amed anthony after his grandfather an englishman who lived in ireland for somo some years before migrating to colonial america here he built up a modest fortune so that his grandson anthony was able abla to start life with some advantages la in the way of education lie ho dilso came naturally by I 1 hla his fighting blood the grandfather having served with distinction under gonfalon gon falon of william III of england and the boys father took active part in the french and english conflict in america in fact young anthonys martial spirit got in tho the way of his schooling an uncle the boys first schoolmaster complained to his father that more itlie ioime would have to be given to study and less to playing soldier or anthony would have to leave school ile he later I 1 was sent to the academy which became the university ty of pennsylvania and there distinguished himself in and at the age filkel of i eighteen he became a surveyor like the youthful george washington I 1 I 1 early ea in the outbreak of the cam I 1 laign for independence anthony wayne put his fiery heart into the fray in 1776 1775 ho he served along with benjamin franklin on the pennsyl I 1 vanla committee of safety and in that same year he organized and drilled he ath pennsylvania regiment of soldiery on january 3 1776 ho he was commissioned a colonel cad cooki took regiment to reinforce ren torce force the attack on quebec at three rivers he led with all his characteristic dash and assault on a superior british force and there received the first of the six wounds lie he suffered during the revolution next he was sent to fort ago but there the enforced inactivity was waa too much for his ardent spirit i aind c nd he besought of washington a post of action in the field in february 1777 he was made a brigadier geu gen eral and two months faar he joined washington in the Corni commander vinder in chiefs movements in nev jarey giving good tc ioe stin tinz of oct liau self i at the battle of brandywine wayne was given the important duty daty of defending the center of the line at chads ford against the advance ut hessians a and n d so spiritedly did he resist the british attack that he bo receive credit from many military authorities tor for saving array army from a rout A little later a force under wayno wayne wea overwhelmed by a british force under no flint grey at paoli and though thou h they suffered buffered what became known a as tho the paoli massacre wayne brought off the amran body of hla his men during the heartbreaking winter at valley forge it was anthony waynes gaynos raids on the british lines for supplies that many times arve d army from outright starvation and these forays were a soro sore trial to the thol enemy when clinton took his armyl army out of philadelphia that year wayno wayne was ordered to hang on to the Bri british tishi roar rear rond wherever ho he appeared there theio was invariably a fight at monmouth I 1 wayne did more than any other except washington n himself to save the Ame americal army from disaster and convert that action into a drawn battle when stony point was to be taken IV lis hs fighting general wayne arnd there mad anthony brought oft off the most daring exploit oi of his whole career stony point had been considered impregnable it commanded the important crossing of kings perry and 1 C was to american success that it be wrested from british control not only was the position strongly fortified it was protected by a marsh which at high tide was covered with water so as aa to mended the fort itself an island boyne took his command to within a rails mile and a half of the place and waited for midnight then he moved his men forward in two columns to carry the redoubt by the bayonet to insure re the element of surprise r tho charges abr ages were removed from all but a few muskets mu stets these to bo be tired fired to divert british attention from the real attacking columns so disparate des parate was the attempt that correspondence before the action indicates his belief that he might lose his hao ufo but ho he meant to take the fort later in the Ro wayno wayne played important Import zot parts in squeezing cornwallis cornwall is out of tho the carolinas Caroll nas andi and la in 1781 ho he joined lafayette an ewa had moved into virginia mad anthony proved a gadfly to the british commander at groen green springs ho he throw threw himself upon tho the entire british army and at yorktown lt it was wayno who opened the first pairl paia lel thrown around cornwallis Cornwall ls a key move in the final victory another of waynes six wounds was received when a nervous sentry at Lafay ettes camp lot let fly qt kit him on a oark dark night tho the bullet glanced from a bone in waynes thigh and lodged in the flesh vrr fw from angry at the soldier wayne raged instead against the american commissary and complained thra it the damned cartridge had had bad enough powder the ball would have gone clear through after the war general wayne returned to civil life in pennsylvania Pennsyl vanJa and was member of tho the state con venton venlon that ratified the constitution in 1702 1792 president Wco washington hington commissioned wayno general in chief of the american army with the rank ol of major general and sent him to do what both generals harmon and st clair had failed to perform the subjugation of the indians in tho the northwest wayne first built three forts in the hostile territory and offered the indians andla ns peace when they refused lie he met them at fallen timbers and am not liot only cut them to pieces but level ed their villages for miles around it taught them a lesson they never forgot but it cost wayne serious injury to his health on oil his return to lc washington made him a 4 commissioner to shape a treaty with the indians but on this mission wayne became ill and died at presque isle new erie pa on december 16 15 1796 many times had washington commended him for his brilliancy and daring the esteem was mutual for the men were warm and lifelong friends and so admired each other wayno wayne once Is said to have remarked that he would storm the gates of hell bell itself if washington planned the assault s in the honors paid to the father of the country this year waynes name and fame will deserve mention elong with that of the thol man he adored and served 4 so bo well j |
