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not waylay our parties, as they were passing and repassing, 

 between our settlements and troops, then concentrating on the 

 Maumee river. These, in short, were the reasons, (and very 

 Bound ones, too,) which General Harrison assigned in his letter 

 to the secretary of war, dated 15th November 1812, for send- 

 ing out this expedition. The result answered his expectations 



in full. 



Having determined on a winter's campaign, for the recove- 

 ry of Detroit and Michigan Territory, it was the commanding 

 General's intention, to occupy a line of posts, from Fort 

 Wayne, to the foot of the Maumee rapids, inclusive. For this 

 purpose, Winchester occupied Forts Wayne and Defiance. 

 With this view, Perkins's brigade, in part, had been marched 

 forward to Lower Sandusky. This brigade was from the north- 

 ern counties of Ohio. They repaired an old stockade, which 

 had been erected to protect an old United States store-house 

 there. This was done early in December. By the tenth of 

 that month, a battalion of Pennsylvanians arrived at Upper- 

 Sandusky, under the command of Lieutenant Hukill, bring- 

 ino- twenty-one pieces of artillery from Pittsburgh. General 

 Harrison, immediately thereafter, sent a regiment, of the 

 same troops, to the same place. He also ordered there, some 

 companies of Virginians, and on the twentieth he arrived there 

 in person, and there established his head quarters. It was 

 there, that he received Campbell's official account of the Mis- 

 sisineway expedition. This news and other circumstances 

 necessarily drew the General into the interior, to Chillicothe, to 

 consult with Governor Meigs, about the means to be used, to 

 keep open a communication between the Upper Miami, and 

 the Maumee river, and to hasten forward, men and provisions. 

 In expectation of information from General Winchester, that 

 he had descended the Maumee to its rapids, and taken 

 post there, by General Harrison's orders, the army at Upper 

 Sandusky, was now employed in cutting roads, erecting 

 bridges, and moving forward, towards the Maumee, the can- 

 non, provisions, and heavy baggage. General Harrison, re- 

 turning from the interior to head quarters, hearing nothing 



