He impressed upon the cavalry and infantry alike that their safety lay in charging home with the utmost resolution.

By steady drill he had turned his force, which was originally not of a promising character, into as fine an army, for its size, as a general could wish to command.
Excellence of his Troops.
The perfection of fighting capacity to which he had brought his forces caused much talk among the frontiersmen themselves.

One of the contingent of Tennessee militia wrote home in the highest praise of the horsemanship and swordsmanship of the cavalry, who galloped their horses at speed over any ground, and leaped them over formidable obstacles, and of the bayonet practice, and especially of the marksmanship, of the infantry.

He remarked that hunters were apt to undervalue the soldiers as marksmen, but that Wayne's riflemen were as good shots as any hunters he had ever seen at any of the many matches he had attended in the backwoods.

[Footnote: _Knoxville Gazette_, August 27, 1793.] Wayne's Scouts.
Wayne showed his capacity as a commander by the use he made of his spies or scouts.