St. Clair and Wayne 407 



rejoined the main army. The Indians had suf 

 fered heavily, and were too dispirited, both by their 

 loss and by their last repulse, to attempt further 

 to harass either this detachment or the main army 

 itself on its retreat. 



Nevertheless, the net result was a mortifying 

 failure. In all, the regulars had lost 75 men killed 

 and 3 wounded, while of the militia 28 had been 

 wounded and 108 had been killed or were missing. 

 The march back was very dreary; and the militia 

 became nearly ungovernable, so that at one time 

 Harmar reduced them to order only by threatening 

 to fire on them with the artillery. 



The loss of all their provisions and dwellings ex 

 posed the Miami tribes to severe suffering and want 

 during the following winter; and they had also 

 lost many of their warriors. But the blow was 

 only severe enough to anger and unite them, not to 

 cripple or crush them. All the other Western tribes 

 made common cause with them. They banded to 

 gether and warred openly; and their vengeful for 

 ays on the frontier increased in number, so that the 

 suffering of the settlers was great. Along the Ohio 

 people lived in hourly dread of tomahawk and scalp 

 ing knife; the attacks fell unceasingly on all the 

 settlements from Marietta to Louisville. 



END OP VOLUME SEVEN 



