68 THE BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN. [1763, Aug. 



than the first. This completed the rout. The 

 four companies, uniting, drove the flying savages 

 through the woods, giving them no time to rally 

 or reload their empty rifles, killing many, and 

 scattering the rest in hopeless confusion. 



While this took place at one part of the circle, 

 the troops and the savages had still maintained their 

 respective positions at the other ; but when the 

 latter perceived the total rout of their comrades, 

 and saw the troops advancing to assail them, they 

 also lost heart, and fled. The discordant outcries 

 which had so long deafened the ears of the English 

 soon ceased altogether, and not a living Indian 

 remained near the spot. About sixty corpses lay 

 scattered over the ground. Among them were 

 found those of several prominent chiefs, while the 

 blood which stained the leaves of the bushes showed 

 that numbers had fled wounded from the field. 

 The soldiers took but one prisoner, whom they shot 

 to death like a captive wolf. The loss of the Brit- 

 ish in the two battles surpassed that of the enemy, 

 amounting to eight officers and one hundred and 

 fifteen men.^ 



1 MS. Letters — Bouquet to Amherst, Aug. 5, 6. Penn. Gaz. 1809-1810. 

 Gent. Mag. XXXIII. 487. London Mag. for 1763, 545. Account of Bou- 

 quet's Expedition. Annual Register for 1763, 28. Mante, 493. 



The accounts of this action, published in the journals of the day, 

 excited much attention, from the wild and novel character of this species 

 of warfare. A well-written description of the battle, together with a 

 journal of Bouquet's expedition of the succeeding year, was published in 

 a thin quarto, with illustrations from the pencil of West. The writer 

 was Dr. William Smith, of Philadelphia, and not, as has usually been 

 thought, the geographer Thomas Hutchins, See the reprint, Clarke's 

 Historical Series, Vol. I. A French translation of the narrative was pub- 

 lished at Amsterdam in 1769. 



