20 August 1794
Fallen Timbers: the bayonet charge
Wayne orders a bayonet charge. Captain Robert Campbell’s dragoons charge first, sabres drawn, across 60 to 100 yards, and Campbell is killed. Wilkinson’s infantry follow, and the Odawa and Potawatomi fall back to their positions.
On the left Hamtramck’s men meet the Wyandot, the Lenape and the Canadians in a heavy exchange of fire. A brigade of Kentucky militia under Robert Todd moves through a swamp and turns the Canadians’ flank, and the 4th sub-legion advances with the bayonet. The confederacy cannot re-form in the broken ground.
Turkey Foot Rock on the bank of the Maumee near Toledo, postcard, 1909Wikimedia Commons, unknown author, Public domain (Turkey Foot Rock, on the bank of the historic Maumee, near Toledo, Ohio - DPLA - e075362231337ce880740b55fcfb0656 (page 1).jpg)
At a ravine on the way to Fort Miami the Odawa try to make a stand. Egushawa is shot through the eye and Little Otter is badly wounded. The Odawa chief Turkey Foot is shot dead on a large rock while urging the warriors to hold.
Sources
- Alan D. Gaff, Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest (2004).
- John Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (2000).
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