On August 20, 1794, General “Mad Anthony” Wayne’s Legion of the United States clashed with the Western Confederacy—an alliance of Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, and other Native nations—near present‑day Maumee, Ohio. The battlefield was littered with trees felled by a tornado roughly a decade earlier, giving the engagement its name.
Wayne’s disciplined infantry executed a fierce bayonet charge that shattered the Native defensive line within an hour. The victory forced the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, opening millions of acres of Ohio and Indiana to American settlement and crippling British influence in the region. Fallen Timbers permanently reshaped the geopolitical map of the Old Northwest.
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