"Mad" Anthony Wayne with Mary Stockwell
Episode description
From 1776 through the end of the war, Anthony Wayne was at the forefront of a defensive line, or in leading the rear guard staving off a British attack on American forces. Intelligent, stubborn, argumentative, bold and daring, Wayne also was a womanizer with a fondness for drink who semed to have lost the trust of Washington when, in 1791, the President entrusted him with building an army to maintain peace in Ohio after two American armies had already been devastated by Native American forces led by Litle Turtle and other warriors. Wayne was Washington's 16th choice for the assignment. We talk with Mary Stockwell author of Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America about Anthony Wayne's unlikely career, and his fidelity to the cause of American liberty.