The arrival of the Legion of the United States at this point on August 8, 1794 ended General Anthony Wayne's difficult march through swamps and forests from Fort GreeneVille, and here in the center of the Indian country he ordered a fort built, declaring that he defied the English, the Indians, and all the devils in Hell to take it, and naming it Fort Defiance; Major Henry Burbeck, who earlier had built Fort Recovery, supervised its construction. From Fort Defiance, Wayne marched against Indian forces gathered at the foot of the Maumee Rapids and defeated them in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, after which the fort became an important link in a chain of military outposts in the Indian lands. During the War of 1812, Fort Defiance was repaired and garrisoned, together with the newly built Fort Winchester nearby, as an American base of operations against the British and the Indians, and when peace came to the Maumee Valley the fort was abandoned. The wider conflict of 1790 to 1795 grew out of American pioneer settlement north and west of the Ohio River after the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, as Indians aided by the British in Canada fought fiercely for their homes in the Ohio Country and set the frontier aflame, requiring three American armies to break their resistance to American occupation. The first army, under General Josiah Harmar in 1790, was defeated at the Miami Towns at Fort Wayne, Indiana; the second, under Governor Arthur St. Clair in 1791, was surprised and repulsed with severe losses on the banks of the Wabash at Fort Recovery, Ohio; and finally on August 20, 1794, the Legion of the United States under General "Mad" Anthony Wayne won a decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. That victory led to the Treaty of Greene Ville on August 3, 1795, placing the Indians under the control of the United States and leaving the Northwest Territory, from which Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and part of Minnesota were to be formed, firmly in United States hands and opened in part to American white settlement.