General Wayne, who now took command, was fortunately circumstanced in that he was under no pressure to move against the Indians.

Public opinion favored a return to negotiation, so that he had time to get his troops under good discipline.

He did not move the main body of his troops until the summer of 1794, and on August 20, he inflicted a smashing defeat on the Indians, at a place known as the Fallen Timbers, followed up the victory by punitive expeditions to the Indian towns, and burned their houses and crops.

The campaign was a complete success.

The Indians were so humbled by their losses that they sued for peace, and negotiations began which were concluded in the summer of 1795 by the treaty of Greenville, under which the Northwestern tribes ceded an extensive territory to the United States.
It was notorious that the trouble which the American authorities had experienced with the Indians had been largely due to the activity of British agents.