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His untiring efforts converted the
Honor and Fame to
Brave ‘Mad Anthony’
A very tipsy Con
tinental soldier ran
afoul of that rigor
ous disciplinarian,
Brig. Gen. Anthony
Wayne, one night.
He gave the man a
verbal dressing
down, it is related.
The discussion
aroused admiration
in all present, Gen
eral
able with his lan
guage, and he then threw the fellow
into the guardhouse.
“My, the general's mad at me,” the
intoxicated patriot commented, even
proudly, “Jus' ole Mad Anthony, that's
what he is—Mad Anthony Wayne!”
That, it is reported, is the origin of
the nicknaine given one of the greatest
nghters of the American Revolution,
though it is more iikely that this able
and beloved leader of men, who forged
the Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania
Dutch farmers of the “Pennsylvania
Line” Into the toughest fighting outfit
of the war, earned his designation by
his reckless, dashing, eager courage.
If he couldn't go through, Wayne
would go around, Sat he preferred to
go through. He was the Stonewall
Jackson of the Revolution,
Stony Point, Monmouth, Brandywine,
Germantown-—-scores of great and
lesser flelds of the Revolution-—saw
Wayne's valor and his military ability.
He loved to fight and he could fight
With serene contempt of danger and
death he went into many a battle cer
tain that he didn't have a chance to
come back alive, but that only made
him, apparently, hurry on. When a
bullet hit him in the head during the
gallant onslaught at
was sure he was going to die and in
sisted on being carried up through the
battle so he could breathe his last
within the captured fort. He lived,
and this capture, which "or that time
saved the Revolutionary cause, was
hailed as one of the brilliant military
exploits of the war.
After the war, when British agents
stirred up Indian warfare in the North
west territory, Generals Hermar and
St. Clair suffered notable defeats from
the redwarriors. President Washington,
troubled by his fears that Wayne was
brave and nothing else, nevertheless
sent him on to handle the situation—
a feather in Wayne's cap, because he
and St. Clair had long been bitter ene
mies. Wayne's army was pretty much
riffraff, and he spent months drilling,
drilling, drilling, turning his men into
Paine’s Pen Factor
in British Defeat
All America bows
reverently to the
memory of George
Washington. But
what of the mem
ory of another who,
with only his pen,
helped as much as
any In achieving
Washington's tri
umph?
Tom Paine, who
arose to ald Amer-
ica in its darkest
hour, and for a re
ward won only contempt and curses!
Truly a stark reminder of the grati-
tude of republics, comments a writer
in the Milwaukee Journal.
The Colonists five months after de
claring their independence were well
nigh beaten. Across New Jersey's
frozen marshes Washington's ragged
remnant of an army fled desperately.
Two days before Christnas, 1776,
General Washington resolved, as a last
desperate measure, to make a surprise
attack upon the Hessians at Trenton.
But the chances of victory were so
small! The Americans, frozen, starved
and discouraged, were losers almost
before they started. As the American
commander sat gloomily figuring his
chances a pamphlet was brought in,
fresh from Philadelphia,
“The Crisis” was the title and “Com
mon Sense” wag the writer. Washing:
ton read, then shouted In joy.
The drums were sounded, the sol
soldiers who decisively
Indian power at Fallen ’
Indians called him “Black Suake™ be
cause he worked so fast,
General Wayne returned to his com
mand to receive from
the northern forts
after the Revolution.
again, he was stric
plicated by an old
smashed the
imbers, The
they
Ken with gout, com
wound In his leg
December 14, 1708, at Presque Isle
Erie, Pa.—Philadeiphis Ledger.
TICONDEROGA
EERE SILL SEER ERNIE
“in the Name of the Great Jehovah
and the Continental Congress!”
diers were gathered into groups and
the officers, by torchlight, read to them
the words of the pamphlet:
“These are the times that try men's
souls. The summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of his country,
but he tha, stands it now deserves the
love and thanks of man and wommn.
Tyranny, like hell, Is not easily con-
quered, yet we have this consolation
with us, that the harder the conflict
the more _lorious the triumph; what
we obtaln too cheap we »steem too
lightly; "tis dearness only that gives
everything its value. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price upon its
goods, and It will be strange, indeed,
if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
“These are the times that try men's
souls” was the battle cry at Trenton.
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West Point
Made in
1780
by Major
L’Enfant
Considering that the serpent, alone
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