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two and wounding others. Of his own men six 

 were killed and five wounded. 25 



Wayne's own detachments occasionally fared as 

 badly. In the fall of 1793, just after he had ad- 

 vanced to Greeneville, a party of ninety regulars, 

 who were escorting twenty heavily laden wagons, 

 were surprised and scattered, a few miles from the 

 scene of Adair's misadventure. 26 The lieutenant 

 and ensign who were in command and five or six 

 of their men were slain, fighting bravely; half a 

 dozen were captured; the rest were panic struck 

 and fled without resistance. The Indians took off 

 about seventy horses, leaving the wagons standing 

 in the middle of the road, with their contents un- 

 injured; and a rescue party brought them safely 

 to Wayne. The victors were a party of Wyandots 

 and Ottawas under the chief Little Otter. On 

 October 24th the British agent at the Miami towns 

 met in solemn council with these Indians and with 

 another successful war party. The Indians had 

 with them ten scalps and two prisoners. Seven of 

 the scalps they sent off, by an Indian runner, a 

 special ally friend of the British agent, to be dis- 

 tributed among the different Lake Indians, to rouse 

 them to war. One of their prisoners, an Irishman, 

 they refused to surrender; but the other they gave 

 to the agent. He proved to be a German, a mer- 

 cenary who had originally been in Burgoyne's 



25 Am. State Papers, IV., 335. Adair to Wilkinson. Nov. 

 6, 1792. 

 * 6 Bradley MSS., Journal, entry of October 17, 1793. 



