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He practiced upon that , and in consequence was very successful . He was so rapid and earnest in what he did that people took to calling him ` Mad Anthony Wayne . ' `` Now , he resolved to storm this fort at all hazards , as Lossing says , and only waited for the ebbing of the tide and the deep first slumber of the garrison . `` At half-past eleven o'clock that night the Americans began a silent march toward the fort . Two strong men disguised as farmers , and the negro Pompey , went first . There was no barking of dogs to arouse the garrison , for they had all been killed -- all in that neighborhood -- the day before . Pompey gave the countersign to the first sentinel on the high ground west of the morass , then the two disguised men suddenly seized and gagged him .