General Anthony Wayne was appointed to succeed General Arthur St. 
Clair as governor of the Northwest Territory, the land between the 
Ohio and Missouri rivers, in 1791. When treaty negotiations were 
hampered by British interference, Wayne took advantage of the 
cessation of hostilities and in 1793 advanced into Indian country. He 
built a string of forts throughout the Indiana Territory and in a 
three-month campaign laid waste to the countryside. When he met 
and defeated the Wyandot Indians and their allies on August 20, 
1794, at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, he opened the way for the 
Treaty of Greenville, in which the Wyandot and other tribes ceded 
almost two-thirds of what is now Ohio. In 1795, the chiefs of the 
western tribes made peace, and there was very little Indian 
resistance in the area until the War of 1812.