Washington, after St. Clair's disaster, had ordered Revolutionary War hero General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to form a well-trained force and put an end to the situation with the belligerent natives in the Northwest.

Wayne takes command of the new Legion of the United States late in 1793.

Wayne can see that previous campaigns had failed because of poor training and discipline.

He has time to train his volunteers, since peace negotiations are undertaken in the summer of 1793.

Shawnee war chief Blue Jacket and Delaware (Lenape) leader Buckongahelas, encouraged by their previous victories and the hope of continued British support, argue for a return to the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768.

They have rejected the subsequent treaties, on which they had never been consulted, that cede the land north of the Ohio River to the United States.

A faction led by the influential Mohawk leader Joseph Brant attempts to negotiate a compromise, but Blue Jacket will accept nothing less than an Ohio River boundary, which the United States refuses to concede.

The American government thus fights a war over the possession of the Ohio area native land under the direction of Secretary of War Henry Knox.

Wayne commands more than forty-six hundred men, with Choctaw and Chickasaw natives serving as his scouts.

After extensive training, Wayne’s troops advance from Fort Washington (Cincinnati, Ohio) into ...

...native country and build Fort Recovery at the site of St. Clair's defeat.

Wayne hopes to demonstrate that the United States Army can recover from this crushing defeat and emerge victorious in what is now termed the Northwest Indian War or "Little Turtle's War."

Wayne's well-trained Legion advances deeper into the territory of the Wabash Confederacy in August.

Blue Jacket replaces Little Turtle in command, and takes a defensive position along the Maumee River, not far from present-day Toledo, Ohio, where a stand of trees (the "fallen timbers") had been blown down by a recent storm.

The natives think the trees will slow the advance of Wayne's Legion.

Fort Miami, a nearby British outpost on American soil, has supplied the native confederacy with provisions.

The native forces, numbering about fifteen hundred, are composed of Blue Jacket's Shawnees, Buckongahelas's Delawares, Miamis led by Little Turtle, Wyandots, Ojibwas, Ottawas, Potawatomis, Mingos, and a company of Canadian militiamen under Captain Alexander McKillop.

The battle is over quickly.

Wayne's men close and press the attack with a bayonet charge.

His horse soldiers outflank Blue Jacket's natives, who are routed, Blue Jacket's warriors flee from the battlefield to regroup ...

The British, after years of warfare, had failed to support the native confederacy of Shawnee, Ojibway, Potawatomi and Miami after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and Buckongahelas signs the Treaty of Greenville on August 3, 1795.

By this treaty, which puts an end to the Northwest Indian War, his band and other Lenape cede much land in Pennsylvania and Ohio to the United States.

Native leaders who sign the treaty include leaders of these bands and tribes: Wyandot, Delaware (Lenape; several bands), Shawnee, Ottawa (several bands), Chippewa, Potawatomi (several bands), Miami (several bands), Wea, Kickapoo, and Kaskaskia.

At times, competing tribes tried to control the lands and villages, and it is not clear that the chiefs who sign the treaties have authority over the lands they were ceding.

General “Mad” Anthony Wayne has thus gained for the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, the future site of downtown Chicago, the Fort Detroit area, the Maumee, Ohio Area, and the Lower Sandusky Ohio Area.

The treaty also establishes the "annuity" system: yearly grants of federal money and supplies of calico cloth to native tribes.

It institutionalizes continuing government influence in tribal affairs and gives outsiders considerable control over native life.