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Book Review
| Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. By Alan D. Gaff. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xix + 419 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
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In the pantheon of neglected commanders and forgotten military campaigns in American history, Major General Anthony Wayne and his conquest of the Northwest Territory in 1794 must stand at the forefront. Indeed, Wayne lingers in the historical shadows despite the fact that his triumph over a powerful confederation of Native Americans proved decisive in ending organized resistance to white settlement west of the Ohio River, and he has received little attention from professional historians for over two centuries. |
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