142 The Winning of the West 



forest, where they at once scattered and disappeared. 

 A few of their stragglers exchanged shots with the 

 advance guard of Logan's wing as it at last came 

 down the bank; this was the only part Logan was 

 able to take in the battle. Of the Indians six or 

 eight were slain, whereas the whites lost seventeen 

 killed, and a large number wounded. 44 Clark de- 

 stroyed all the houses and a very large quantity of 

 corn; and he sent out detachments which destroyed 

 another village, and the stores of some British and 

 French Canadian traders. Then the army marched 

 back to the mouth of the Licking and disbanded, 

 most of the volunteers having been out just twenty- 

 five days. 45 



The Indians were temporarily cowed by their loss 

 and the damage they had suffered, 46 and especially 



44 Bradford MS. ; the McAfee MSS. make the loss "15 or 20 

 Indians" in the last assault, and "nearly as many" whites. 

 Boone's Narrative says seventeen on each side. But McKee 

 says only six Indians were killed and three wounded ; and 

 Bombardier Homan, in the letter already quoted, says six 

 were killed and two captured, who were afterward slain. 

 The latter adds from hearsay that the Americans cruelly 

 slew an Indian woman ; but there is not a syllable in any of 

 the other accounts to confirm this, and it may be set down 

 as a fiction of the by-no-means-valorous bombardier. The 

 bombardier mentions that the Indians in their alarm and 

 anger immediately burnt all the male prisoners in their 

 villages. The Kentucky historians give very scanty ac- 

 counts of this expedition ; but as it was of a typical char- 

 acter it is worth while giving in full. The McAfee MSS. 

 contain most information about it. 



46 Bradford MS. 



46 See Haldimand MSS. De Peyster to Haldimand, Aug. 

 30, 1780. 



