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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2005
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Bayonets in the Wilderness
Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest

By Alan D. Gaff
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 419. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

Alan D. Gaff wrote this book to give complete coverage to Anthony Wayne's conduct of the Indian War in the Old Northwest from 1792 to 1795. Having previously written on the Iron Brigade and co-edited John Gibbon's chronicle of his experiences as a soldier and scout on the Western frontier in the 1870s, Gaff is qualified to undertake this study. He correctly notes that despite the many biographies of Wayne and surveys of the war that have been published, no complete history of this part of America's military past has been written. In his exhaustive treatment, he analyzes the role of Wayne and his Legion army in bringing the Old Northwest more thoroughly under the control of the United States by defeating an impressive Indian confederacy and thwarting British intentions in that part of the world. . . .
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