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were all slain or captured with small loss to their as- 

 sailants. 60 Many of the prisoners, including Lough- 

 ry himself, were afterward murdered in cold blood 

 by the Indians. 



During this year the Indians continually harassed 

 the whole frontier, from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, 

 ravaging the settlements and assailing the forts in 

 great bands of five or six hundred warriors. 61 The 

 Continental troops stationed at Fort Pitt were re- 

 duced to try every expedient to procure supplies. 

 Though it was evident that the numbers of the hos- 

 tile Indians had largely increased, and that even 

 such tribes as the Delawares, who had been divided, 

 were now united against the Americans, neverthe- 

 less, because of the scarcity of food, a party of sol- 

 diers had to be sent into the Indian country to kill 

 buffalo, that the garrison might have meat. 62 The 



60 As Loughry's Creek, some ten miles below the mouth of 

 the Miami, on August 24, 1781. Diary of Captain Isaac An- 

 derson, quoted in "Indiana Hist. Soc. Pamphlets, No. 4," by 

 Charles Martindale, Indianapolis, 1888. Collins, whose ac- 

 curacy by no means equals his thirst for pure detail, puts 

 this occurrence just a year too late. Brant's force was part 

 of a body of several hundred Indians gathered to resist Clark. 



61 It is most difficult to get at the number of the Indian 

 parties ; they were sometimes grossly exaggerated and some- 

 times hopelessly underestimated. The commanders at the 

 unmolested forts and the statesmen who stayed at home only 

 saw those members of the tribes who claimed to be peaceful, 

 and invariably put the number of warriors on the warpath at 

 far too low a figure. Madison's estimates, for instance, were 

 very much out of the way, yet many modern critics follow 

 him. 



62 State Department MSS., No. 147, Vol. VI. Reports of 

 Board of War. March 15, 1781. 



