Such orders tied Wayne's hands, for offensive operations offered the only means of ending the war; but he patiently bided his time, and made ready his army against the day when his superiors should allow him to use the weapon he had tempered.
In Spring He Shifts His Camp to Near Cincinnati.
His Second Winter Camp at Greeneville.
In May, '93, he brought his army down the Ohio to Fort Washington, and near it established a camp which he christened Hobson's Choice.

Here he was forced to wait the results of the fruitless negotiations carried on by the United States Peace Commissioners, and it was not until about the 1st of October that he was given permission to begin the campaign.

Even when he was allowed to move his army forward he was fettered by injunctions not to run any risks--and of course a really good fighting general ought to be prepared to run risks.

The Secretary of War wrote him that above all things he was to remember to hazard nothing, for a defeat would be fraught with ruinous consequences to the country.

Wayne knew very well that if such was the temper of the country and the Government, it behooved him to be cautious, and he answered that, though he would at once advance towards the Indian towns, to threaten the tribes, he would not run the least unnecessary risk.