[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] themselves; and I am persuaded their against whom he manifested at all times general confederacy is entirely broken, the most intense hatred. Indeed, it would not be very difficult, if * Stone* s Life of Branty 11, 308, etc.; circumstances required it, to set them at Gallatin, 50, 51, 68. 37 292 THE INDIAN TRIBES resolved to leave our bones in this small space, to which we are now consigned." Thirteen tribes, the Lenapes^ Shawanoes, Minsis^ Mahicans, of the Delaware, Nanticokes and Conoys, the seven nations of Canada, the Wyandots, Miamis, Chippeways and Pottawattamies^ and the Senecas of the Glaize, signed the declaration, and on the thirtieth of June following, sealed it with the blood of their bravest warriors in battle against General Wayne on the ground where St. Clair had been so disastrously defeated in I79I.1 From that field they retired crushed and broken, while fire and sword fol