Editing Fort Recovery (section)

==Attack on Fort Recovery==
{{main|Siege of Fort Recovery}}
Fort Recovery had been garrisoned since spring 1794 by a 250-man detachment of Gen. Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States.

On June 30, 1794, a United States supply column left Fort Recovery for [[Fort Greenville]], under the command of Major William McMahon and escorted by ninety riflemen under Captain Asa Hartshome and fifty [[dragoons]] under Lieutenant Edmund Taylor.  It had gone only about a quarter mile when it was attacked by Indians led by Shawnee war chief [[Blue Jacket]], and including the young [[Tecumseh]].{{sfnp|Allison|1986|page=108}}  The dragoons cut a retreat back to the fort, losing thirty-two killed (including Captain Hartshome and [[Cornet (military rank)|Cornet]] Daniel Torrey) and thirty wounded, while inflicting an unknown number of casualties on their attackers.

During the night, a scouting company under Captain [[William Wells (soldier)|William Wells]] reported that there were British officers behind the Indian lines, and that they had brought powder and cannonballs, but no cannons.  The Indians were looking for U.S. cannons that had been buried after St. Clair's defeat, not knowing that these had already been recovered by the [[Legion of the United States]].  The next day, July 1, the Indian forces attacked the fort again, but they began to withdraw by noon, and they were gone by nightfall.{{sfnp|Allison|1986|pages=108–110}}