Anthony Wayne
Soldier and former United States RepresentativeWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
Betty B.NARRATOR
R.D.G. Erie, Pennsylvania.
Betty B.NARRATOR
I live on the shore of Presque Isle Bay where Mad Anthony Wayne was buried.
Betty B.NARRATOR
There is a monument erected over his grave.
Betty B.NARRATOR
They are now rebuilding the old blockhouse, which was burned a few years ago.
Lou MerrillNARRATOR
General Washington had camped there during the winter of 1777-78 at a place known as Valley Forge.
Lou MerrillNARRATOR
In the town of Chester, Mad Anthony Wayne drilled his troops in an unusual manner in the courthouse square.
Lou MerrillNARRATOR
The western part of the state was rife with forests, game, trout streams, and beneath it, the silent flow of oil to be discovered 50 years later in Titusville, of all places.
Lou MerrillNARRATOR
A dominion of wealth, discovered and as yet undiscovered, of history, made and as yet unmade.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
They were by various hands but unquestionably represented the same person, a handsome, resolute-looking man in the uniform of an officer in the army of Washington.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
General Anthony Wayne, said Ashton Kirk softly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
There was something in the tone that made Pendleton look at him swiftly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
The splendid head was bent over the portraits, eagerness blazed in the dark eyes.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
They were by various hands, but unquestionably represented the same person, a handsome, resolute-looking man in the uniform of an officer in the Army of Washington.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
General Anthony Wayne, said Ashton Kirk softly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
There was something in the tone that made Pendleton look at him swiftly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
The splendid head was bent over the portraits, eagerness blazed in the dark eyes.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
Seemingly countless other tales join these in the ghostly annals of the American Revolution, but none can compare in strangeness or ghoulishness to that of the rendering of General Wayne.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
General Mad Anthony Wayne served through the Revolutionary War, and among his men he distinguished himself as a fearless and eager leader who often led from the front lines or even fought battles alone.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
He slept on the ground alongside his underlings during the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and like Washington, his troops would remember that he often walked the grounds at night, watching over them.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
He and General Casimir Pulaski took on over a thousand British troops in New Jersey with a mere 100 of their own and lived to tell the tale.
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Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
As the procession neared the burying ground, Isaac Wayne and other family members greeted the funeral party.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
The oration was delivered by the Reverend David Jones, a chaplain who fought alongside Wayne in the Revolution.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
Now, Mad Anthony Wayne had not only two graves, but several other unknown ones on the road between Erie and Ratnor, where his poor bones had fallen on the long, strange trip home.
Christopher HaltonNARRATOR
On November 10, 1853, the location of the flesh grave in Erie was lost after an arson at the old blockhouse there and a regrading of the old parade field where Wayne's coffin had been reinterred on that strange day so long ago.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
THE STORMING OF STONY POINT WRITTEN BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT in their ragged regimentals stood the old continentals yielding nought when the grenadiers were lunging and like hail fell the plunging cannon-shot when the files of the isles from the smoky night encampment bore the banner of the rampant unicorn and grummer grummer grummer rolled the roll of the drummer through the morn Then with eyes to the front all, and with guns horizontal, stood our sires, and the balls whistled deadly, and in streams flashing redly blazed the fires, as the roar on the shore swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres of the plain, and louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder, cracked a main.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
Guy Humphrey McMaster One of the heroic figures of the Revolution was Anthony Wayne, Major General of the Continental Line.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
With the exception of Washington, and perhaps Green, he was the best general the Americans developed in the contest.
Cathy BarrattNARRATOR
and without exception he showed himself to be the hardest fighter produced on either side.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
At the first meeting, General Washington was unanimously chosen President General and held that office until his death, when he was succeeded by Major General Alexander Hamilton, who in turn remained President General until his tragic death.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
Among the great leaders of the American Revolution who became members of the Society, besides George Washington, were Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Green, Friedrich von Steuben, Benjamin Lincoln, Charles C. Pinckney, John Paul Jones, Israel Putnam, John Schuyler, Horatio Gates, James Monroe, William Moultrie, Thaddeus Kosciko, Anthony Wayne, William Sullivan, Light Horse Harry Lee, Arthur St. Clair, and many others.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
From the early issue of the New York Directory, many members of the Cincinnati are known to have been Freemasons.
T.J. OlsonNARRATOR
Those mentioned are George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, General Friedrich von Steuben, Chancellor Robert R. Livington, Grand Master, John Paul Jones, and General Henry Knox.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
They were by various hands, but unquestionably represented the same person, a handsome, resolute-looking man in the uniform of an officer in the Army of Washington.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
General Anthony Wayne, said Ashton Kirk softly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
There was something in the tone that made Pendleton look at him swiftly.
Pete MilanNARRATOR
The splendid head was bent over the portraits, eagerness blazed in the dark eyes.
JustinHOST
I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism.
JustinHOST
I tried Adams, Hancock, then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne.
JustinHOST
As you would.
JustinHOST
I mean, that's who I thought of immediately.
Lou MerrillHOST
General Washington had camped there during the winter of 1777-78 at a place known as Valley Forge.
Lou MerrillHOST
In the town of Chester, mad Anthony Wayne drilled his troops in an unusual manner in the courthouse square.
Lou MerrillHOST
The western part of the state was rife with forests, game, trout streams, and beneath it, the silent flow of oil to be discovered 50 years later in Titusville, of all places.
Lou MerrillHOST
A dominion of wealth, discovered and as yet undiscovered, of history, made and as yet unmade.
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