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Hull was still seventy miles from Detroit, but as the road was 
tolerably good, he was able to advance by longer marches. During 
the day travellers from Detroit were met, who reported that Tecumseh 
had arrived at Amherstburg with a very large body of Indians, and 
that they had seen a party of Sioux at Brownstown with a British flag 
flying. The River Raisin was crossed by fording on the morning of 
the 3rd, and scouts sent forward to scour the country. Hull advanced 
only nine miles, to Swan Creek, where he strongly fortified his encamp- 
ment for the night with a breastwork of logs. When his scouts reached 
Brownstown, they found the Indians of that place peacefully engaged 
in repairing their houses, and on proceeding to the Standing Stone on 
the river bank, they ascertained that the Sioux had gone over to 
Amherstburg, and that the Cuyahoga Packet had been captured the day 
before. The advance was continued with great caution next morning 
to the River Huron, which was bridged to permit the passage of the 
waggon train. This caused so much delay that they marched but six 
miles that day, and, owing to the appearance of a British ship of war, 
the Queen Charlotte, in the offing, the whole force lay on its arms all 
night in considerable apprehension of an attack. While marching 
through the Wyandot village of Brownstown on the morning of July 
5th, it was observed that several of the Indians saluted the General 
cordially as an old acquaintance, and that they seemed very friendly 
and much impressed by the size of his force and long train of waggons 
and pack horses.!t In the afternoon the sound of cannon was heard in 
the direction of Detroit, which caused them to hasten their march, in 
the belief that the British vessels were bombarding the town. The 
construction of bridges over the Riviere aux Ecorces and River Rouge 
again delayed them, but on arriving at Spring Wells or Belle Fontaine, 
three miles below Detroit, it was learned that the appearance of a small 
body of Canadian militia in the village of Sandwich the day before 
had been construed as a threat of hostility by some over-zealous officers 
of the Michigan Legion, who had commenced a fire of artillery and 
musketry across the river, which General Hull at once ordered them to 
discontinue as needlessly damaging private property, and went into 
camp for the night? He then wrote a letter to the commandant at 
Amherstburg, informing him that he had not authorized this attack, 
and enquiring whether the officers’ baggage taken on the Cuyahoga 
Packet was considered a proper object of seizure and detention. Colonel 

*Walker’s Journal, pp. 48-50; Lucas Journal, pp. 366-70; Forbes, Trial 
of General Hull; Magazine of Western History, October, 1888. 
7 Walker’s Journal, p. 50; Lucas Journal, pp. 370-1. 
