In 1809, the son of General Anthony Wayne dug up his father’s grave in Erie, Pennsylvania, boiled the flesh from the bones in a kettle, and carried the skeleton across the state in saddlebags, leaving Wayne with two graves. This deep dive explores the wealthy Pennsylvania heir who skipped the family tannery for military history and surveying, survived the bayonet massacre at Paoli, and redeemed himself with a silent, unloaded bayonet assault at Stony Point.

After the Revolution, Wayne failed as a Georgia planter and was removed from Congress after an election marred by voter fraud. Following St. Clair’s defeat, Washington handed him about 83 percent of the federal budget to build the Legion of the United States, which won at Fallen Timbers in 1794. The episode weighs his scorched-earth tactics, the Treaty of Greenville, suspicions that Spanish spy James Wilkinson poisoned him, and his link to Bruce Wayne.

• Debating the origins of the nickname Mad Anthony
• The night attacks at Paoli and Stony Point
• Debt, enslaved labor, and the rigged Georgia election
• Legionville, Fallen Timbers, and a contested legacy of Native removal
• James Wilkinson, Agent 13, and the suspicion of poisoning