The Indian Wars in the Ohio Country ended after Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and negotiated the Treaty of Greene Ville in 1795. American pioneers had tried to settle the area north and west of the Ohio River after the Ordinance of 1787, and the Indians, aided by the British of Canada, fought fiercely for their homes, forcing the efforts of three American armies. Gen. Josiah Harmar was defeated at the Miami Towns in 1790, and Gov. Arthur St. Clair was surprised and repulsed with severe losses on the banks of the Wabash in 1791. Wayne’s decisive victory on August 20, 1794, led to the treaty on August 3, 1795, which placed the Indians under the control of the United States and left the Northwest Territory, from which Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and part of Minnesota were to be formed, firmly in U.S. hands and opened in part to white settlement. After the treaty, Wayne built a series of posts along the supply route between Fort Washington at Cincinnati and the American forts along the Maumee River, including Fort Loramie, which stood on the site of an early store owned by the French trader Peter Loramie and destroyed in 1782 by George Rogers Clark. Located on the north bank of Loramie Creek, Fort Loramie received supplies by boat from the south, which were portaged to the St. Marys River and then sent by boat to Fort Wayne, the major American outpost in the Maumee Valley. Later, Fort Loramie became a gateway for settlers moving into the former Indian lands.