The War in the Northwest.

1787-1790 The Federal troops were camped in the Federal territory north of the Ohio.

They garrisoned the forts and patrolled between the little log-towns.

They were commanded by the Federal General Harmar, and the territory was ruled by the Federal Governor St.Clair.Thenceforth the national authorities and the regular troops played the chief parts in the struggle for the Northwest.

The frontier militia became a mere adjunct--often necessary, but always untrustworthy--of the regular forces.
The Regular Army in the Northwest.
For some time the regulars fared ill in the warfare with the savages; and a succession of mortifying failures closed with a defeat more ruinous than any which had been experienced since the days of the "iron-tempered general the pipe-clay brain,"-- for the disaster which befell St.Clair was as overwhelming as that wherein Braddock met his death.