Federal garrisons were established at Detroit and elsewhere, and the Indians, who had already entered into the treaty of Greeneville, were prevented from breaking it by this intervention of the American military posts between themselves and their British allies.
Peace was firmly established for the time being in the Northwest, and our boundaries in that direction took the fixed form they still retain.
[Footnote: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, I., p.

573; Foreign Relations, I., _passim_, etc., etc.] Systematic Treachery of the Spaniards.
In dealing with the British the Americans sometimes had to encounter bad faith, but more often a mere rough disregard for the rights of others, of which they could themselves scarcely complain with a good grace, as they showed precisely the same quality in their own actions.

In dealing with the Spaniards, on the other hand, they had to encounter deliberate and systematic treachery and intrigue.

The open negotiations between the two governments over the boundary ran side by side with a current of muddy intrigue between the Spanish Government on the one hand, and certain traitorous Americans on the other; the leader of these traitors being, as usual, the arch scoundrel, Wilkinson.
Their Intrigues with the Indians.
The Spaniards trusted almost as much to Indian intrigue as to bribery of American leaders; indeed they trusted to it more for momentary effect, though the far-sighted among them realized that in the long run the safety of the Spanish possessions depended upon the growth of divisional jealousies among the Americans themselves.

The Spanish forts were built as much to keep the Indians under command as to check the Americans.