Anthony Wayne earned the nickname "Mad" during the Revolution, when his aggressive temperament made him a better tactician than strategist and an officer his men would follow into nearly anything. He fought at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, led the daring midnight bayonet assault on Stony Point in July 1779 (where he was wounded in the head and continued the attack), and ended the war commanding the Pennsylvania Line at Yorktown. He went home to Pennsylvania expecting to be done with soldiering. He wasn't. In 1792, with the new federal army humiliated by St. Clair's defeat in Ohio, President Washington appointed Wayne commander of the rebuilt Legion of the United States — partly because the two men shared an appreciation for Caesar's Gallic Wars and an aligned view of how a frontier war should be fought. Two years of training and drill later, Wayne destroyed the Northwest Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794 — the year of this figure — and forced the Treaty of Greenville that opened the Ohio Country to American settlement. This figure shows Wayne mounted in the dress uniform of a major general of the new United States Army — dark blue coat with buff facings and gold epaulettes, buff waistcoat and breeches, bicorne hat (which had replaced the tricorne in U.S. service by the early 1790s), high black boots, mounted on a brown campaign horse with a blue saddlecloth. He pairs naturally with General Washington Mounted — his Continental Army commander and the President who appointed him to lead the Legion — and Marquis de Lafayette 1783 for a Revolutionary-and-Federal-era command group, and sits in the American Revolution & Federal Era collection alongside the other named generals Breagans carries. 1/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single mounted figure boxed. Catalog number 16142. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.
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