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Having been for some time detained by the 

 necessity of making litters for the wounded, and 

 destroying the stores which the flight of most of 

 the horses made it impossible to transport, the 

 army moved on, in the afternoon, to Bushy Run. 

 Here they had scarcely formed their camp, when 

 they were again fired upon by a body of Indians, 

 who, however, were soon repulsed. On the next 

 day they resumed their progress towards Fort Pitt, 

 distant about twenty-five miles ; and, though fre- 

 quently annoyed on the march by petty attacks, 

 they reached their destination, on the tenth, with- 

 out serious loss. It was a joyful moment both to 

 the troops and to the garrison. The latter, it will 

 be remembered, were left surrounded and hotly 

 pressed by the Indians, who had beleaguered the 

 place from the twenty-eighth of July to the first of 

 August, when, hearing of Bouquet's approach, they 



Extract from a Letter — Fort Pitt, August 12 [Penn. Gaz. No. 1810) : — 



" We formed a Circle round our Convoy and Wounded ; upon which 

 the Savages collected themselves, and continued whooping and popping 

 at us all the Evening. Next Morning, having mustered all their Force, 

 they began the War-whoop, attacking us in Front, when the Colonel 

 feigned a Retreat, which encouraged the Indians to an eager Pursuit, 

 while the Light Infantry and Grenadiers rushed out on their Right and 

 Left Flanks, attacking them where they little expected it ; by which 

 Means a great Number of them were killed ; and among the rest, Keely- 

 uskung, a Delaware Chief, who the Night before, and that Morning, had 

 been Blackguarding us in EngUsh : We lost one Man in the Rear, on 

 our March the Day after. 



" In other Letters from Fort Pitt, it is mentioned that, to a Man, they 

 were resolved to defend the Garrison (if the Troops had not arrived), as 

 long as any Ammunition, and Provision to support them, were left ; and 

 that then they would have fought their Way through, or died in the 

 Attempt, rather than have been made Prisoners by such perfidious, cruel, 

 and Blood-thirsty Hell-hounds." 



See Appendix, D. 



