Major General Arthur St. Clair's army camped on the ridge to the east from Sunday evening, October 30th, until the morning of November 2nd 1791, awaiting the forwarding of flour, tents, and heavy baggage. The troops had advanced seven miles from Greenville Creek following the Wabash Trail. While there, a severe storm occurred, and some sixty hungry and disgruntled militiamen deserted, threatening to plunder the provision wagons coming up the road. To apprehend the deserters and establish discipline, three hundred select men from the first regiment were sent after them. For additional protection, a heavy semicircular embankment of logs and earth was thrown across the exposed north side of camp. The camp stood eighty one miles from Fort Washington, Cincinnati.