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Anthony Wayne's Proclamation concerning the Indians...
Anthony Wayne's Proclamation concerning the Indians...
Item # 704309
May 18, 1793
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, May 18, 1793
* Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne
* Command of the Legion of the United States
* Western Confederacy at Lower Sandusky
Nearly half of the front page is taken up with: "Trial of Louis XVI".
Page 2 has: "A Proclamation, by his Excellency Anthony Wayne..." which concerns the prohibition of any attacks against Indians in the Lower Sandusky until results are known of a hoped for treaty. It is signed by him in type: Anthony Wayne.
Four pages, nice condition.
background: Issued during the winter of 1792–1793, this proclamation serves as a critical artifact of the early American Republic’s struggle to balance military readiness with federal diplomacy. Major General Anthony Wayne, having recently assumed command of the Legion of the United States, was tasked with enforcing a fragile ceasefire while the Washington administration attempted to negotiate a boundary treaty with the Western Confederacy at Lower Sandusky. By strictly prohibiting any "hostile incursions" by white settlers or unauthorized militias, Wayne was acting as a diplomatic safeguard; he knew that a single rogue attack could collapse the peace talks and ignite a broader frontier war before his troops were fully trained. The eventual failure of these specific negotiations at the Treaty of Lower Sandusky transitioned Wayne from a peacekeeper to an aggressor, leading directly to his scorched-earth campaign and the decisive American victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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