"MAD ANTHONY" WAYNE MICRO Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

SVC: To be honest I won't be up this way for a while and I think this cache has run it's course. If someone wants to check and see if its there and grab it for themselves be my guest. Also if someone wants to use the info on this page or replace the cache themselves feel free. Thanks to all those that visited.

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Hidden : 5/12/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MICRO NEAR THE CAMPSITE OF GENERAL...

Mad Anthony Wayne
"MAD ANTHONY" WAYNE



General "Mad Anthony" Wayne was born on New Years Day 1745 in Chester County, Pa. He made a name for himself during the Revolutionary War. He fought at the disastrous campaign against Quebec where he received a wound to his leg.

Wayne's most brilliant exploit of the Revolutionary War was the storming of the British fort July 16, 1779, at Stony Point, N.Y. His forces took the strongest British post on the Hudson River with a surprise night attack.

Descriptions of Wayne vary from impetuous to vain. He inspired loyalty among his men. He was a shrewd politician but a weak businessman. He was a meticulous dresser and was nicknamed "Dandy" before he became "Mad Anthony." Several versions with common threads exist on how Wayne earned his "Mad Anthony" moniker.

Glenn Tucker's book says Wayne was named by a character called "Jemy the Rover," a "nondescript character" who served as Wayne's principal spy during the Valley Forge campaign. Wayne called him "Commodore." At one point during the winter of 1781 Jemy became unruly, and Wayne, "not in good spirits," ordered him to receive 29 lashes across the back for his behavior.

"Anthony is mad, stark mad," Jemy exclaimed. "Mad Anthony Wayne" he yelled again and again.

His most famous exploits came after the American Revolution during the push westward. The battle he's most remembered for was "The Battle of Fallen Timbers" just south of Toledo, Ohio. The location of the micro was at a campsite during winter of 1792-1793.

In June 1796, Wayne was back in the frontier overseeing the surrender of British forts to the United States. In November he became ill with gout. On Dec. 16, 1796, he died.

At his request he was buried in a plain oak coffin near Erie, Pa.

Wayne has to be one of the few famous people in American history known to have two graves.

Thirteen years after Wayne's death, his son, Isaac Wayne, decided to move his father's body to the family's burial plot at St. David's Church in Radnor, Pa.

Isaac Wayne drove over the mountains to Erie, Pa., in a one-horse sulky to claim his father's body. Young Wayne enlisted the help of Dr. J.G. Wallace, who had been with Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Wayne's body was remarkably preserved even after 13 years. There was little decay except in the lower portion of one leg.

The men decided it was impractical to reduce the body to small packages that would fit into the back of the sulky. With Isaac Wayne's permission, Wallace dissected the body and boiled the parts in a large iron kettle to render the flesh from the bones. Isaac Wayne took the cleaned skeleton back home in the sulky.

The rendered flesh and the knives used in the operation were replaced in the original coffin and reinterred in the old grave.

That's a brief history of "Mad Anthony" Wayne. You are looking for a magnetic key holder not far from the campsite. This area also holds one other historic spot but we'll let you discover that on your own. The parking is a small dirt pull off. WATCH THE KIDS on this one because it's close to the road. Please place the cache right where you found it AND MAKE SURE THE LOG IS DOUBLE BAGGED AND THE CONTAINER SHUT before you go. Have fun and bring your own pen/pencil.


For more information about "Mad Anthony" Wayne visit the websites below:

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/anthony.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Wayne

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