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visions, and on the same day a letter from Piatt, the contractor for 
supplying provisions at Urbana, informing him that a brigade of pack- 
horses would be ready to leave that place as soon as he could furnish 
sufficient escort. Within forty-eight hours a company of sixty-nine 
volunteers was enrolled and equipped under command of Captain Henry 
Brush, a young lawyer, practising in Chillicothe. On the 25th Brush, 
with his company and.a sergeant’s party of the 4th United States Infan- 
try, began his march from Urbana in charge of three hundred beef cattle 
and one hundred pack-horses each carrying two hundred weight of flour. 
Orders had been sent on to Sandusky and Cleveland directing the militia 
companies stationed at those places to join Brush at the Miami Rapids, 
where he arrived on August 2nd. Five days later two companies from 
Sandusky arrived, and on the 9th the whole force in charge of the 
convoy reached the River Raisin, where Lacroix’s company of the 
Michigan Legion and the greater part of the Second Regiment of Mich- 
iran militia were assembled. Next day a small party of rangers arrived 
from Manary’s blockhouse. Brush had then almost two hundred men 
under his command, whom he proceeded to organize into a battalion. 
The most alarming rumours concerning the precarious situation of 
Hull’s army continued to reach him, as all communication with Detroit 
had been cut off for several days. Five messengers had been sent off, 
and none had since been heard from. An American prisoner, who had 
escaped from Amherstburg, come in and reported that the mail had 
been taken and brought into that place, where the officers had “ much 
sport ” examining it. All hope of advancing further until instructions 
could be received from Detroit was accordingly abandoned, and the 
whole force was set at work entrenching their position. On August 
17th, Captain Matthew Elliott, of the Indian Department, arrived from 
Amherstburg with an escort of only three men, bearing a copy of the 
articles of capitulation, with letters to Brush from Hull and McArthur, 
end an order from Brock to march on at once to Detroit. Elliott, 
with his party, was placed under arrest. In the afternoon a number 
of fugitives arrived from Detroit, who confirmed his report of the sur- 
render, and a council of war decided to disregard the terms and retreat 

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Letter in Independent Chronicle of Boston, August 31st, 1812; Jesup N. 
Couch to Meigs, August 11th, 1812. 
