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Thirty-three of the Americans were killed and 

 one hundred wounded. 44 It was an easy victory. 

 The Indians suffered much more heavily than the 



44 Wayne's report; of the wounded n afterward died. He 

 gives an itemized statement. Clark in his letter makes the 

 dead 34 (including 8 militia instead of 7) and the wounded 

 only 70. Wayne reports the Indian loss as twice as great as 

 that of the whites; and says the woods were strewn with 

 their dead bodies and those of their white auxiliaries. Clark 

 says loo Indians were killed. The Englishman, Thomas 

 Duggan, writing from Detroit to Joseph Chew, Secretary 

 of the Indian Office, says officially that "great numbers" of 

 the Indians were slain. The journal of Wayne's campaign 

 says 40 dead were left on the field, and that there was con- 

 siderable additional, but unascertained, loss in the rapid two 

 miles pursuit. The member of Caldwell's company who was 

 captured was a French Canadian; his deposition is given by 

 Wayne. McKee says the Indians lost but 19 men, and that 

 but 400 were engaged, specifying the Wyandots and Ottawas 

 as being those who did the fighting and suffered the loss; 

 and he puts the loss of the Americans, although he admits 

 that they won, at between 300 and 400. He was furious at 

 the defeat, and was endeavoring to minimize it in every 

 way. He does not mention the presence of Caldwell's white 

 company; he makes the mistake of putting the American 

 cavalry on the wrong wing, in trying to show that only the 

 Ottawas and Wyandots were engaged ; and if his figures, 19 

 dead, have any value at all, they refer only to those two 

 tribes ; above I have repeatedly shown that he invariably un- 

 derestimated the Indian losses, usually giving the losses suf- 

 fered by the band he was with as being the entire loss. In 

 this case he speaks of the fighting and loss as being confined 

 to the Ottawas and Wyandots; but Brickell, who was with the 

 Delawares, states that "many of the Dela wares were killed 

 and wounded." All the Indians were engaged; and doubt- 

 less all the tribes suffered proportionately, and much more 

 than the Americans. Captain Daniel Bradley in his above 

 quoted letter of Aug. 28th to Ebenezer Banks (Bradley 

 MSS.) says that between 50 and 100 Indians were killed. 



