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appearance. The force in the district was organized into three brigades, 
the first of which, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel St. George, was com- 
posed of a detachment of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the 
whole of the Ist and 2nd Essex and Kent regiments of militia; 
the second, under Major Chambers, consisted of fifty men of the 41st 
and the detachments of the Lincoln, Norfolk, Oxford and York militia 
which had accompanied Brock from Port Dover, and the third, under 
Major Joseph Tallon, consisted of two hundred and fifty officers and 
men of the 41st Regiment. The field artillery, three six pounders and 
iwo three pounders, manned by five non-commissioned officers and 
twenty-four privates of Holcroft’s company of the Fourth Battalion of 
Royal Artillery, was commanded by Lieutenant Felix Troughton. 
Brock’s efforts to re-assemble the militia were so far successful that 
within twenty-four hours after his arrival at Amherstburg, more than 
five hundred of the Essex and Kent Regiments mustered there in good 
spirits and apparently willing to take the field. At the suggestion of 
Major Thomas Evans, Brigade Major at Fort George, the cast-off uni- 
forms of the 41st Regiment had been sent to Amherstburg for the 
purpose of clothing the militia, and, being now distributed among them, 
doubled the apparent number of his regular troops.t Two batteries, 
nearly opposite the fort at Detroit, were heing rapidly constructed under 
the directions of Captain Dixon. During the course of the day Captain 
John Norton arrived from the Grand River, with fully one hundred and 
fifty warriors of the Six Nations, and the number of the Western In- 
dians, although constantly fluctuating, was, on the whole, steadily 
increasing, and they had maintained possession of Brownstown since 
the recent action without being disturbed.? 
A meeting was arranged with the principal chiefs and warriors. 
Among these Tecumseh naturally took the first place. “A more saga- 
cious and more gallant warrior does not, I believe, exist,” Brock wrote 
soon after. “He was the admiration of every one who conversed with 
him. From a life of dissipation he has not only become in every respect 
abstemious, but has also prevailed on all his own nation and many of 
other tribes to follow his example.” 
Major Glegg, who was present, gave the following minute descrip- 
tion of the Shawnee chief, as seen by him that day: 
“Tecumseh’s appearance was very prepossessing; his figure light 
and finely proportioned; his age I imagined to be about five and thirty; 
in height, five feet nine or ten inches; his complexion, light copper; 
countenance, oval, with bright hazel eyes, and beaming cheerfulness, 


* Brock to Evans, 17th August. 
Quebec Mercury. 
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