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my approached that night, within three hundred yards of our 

 army, and posted himself with his artillery, behind a ravine, 

 which run across the plain on the right of our troops. A few 

 minutes after the reveille was beat next morning, our army 

 heard three guns, in quick succession, after each other, which 

 were fired by our sentinels. Instantly afterwards, the enemy 

 opened a fire upon our troops, three hundred yards distant from 

 them. Their artillery discharged balls, bombs and grape shot. 

 As soon as the enemy approached Lewis' command near 

 enough, he opened, from behind his pickets, a well directed 

 fire of musketry upon him. The Indians of the enemy, 

 opened their yells on the right and left flanks of the British 

 army. Lewis soon repulsed all that approached him. Win- 

 chester's force encamped in an open field, unprotected, sooi 

 gave way, and being surrounded by Indians, that portion of 

 our troops were panic stricken, and so fled in dismay and 

 confusion over the river. Even a reinforcement which Lew- 

 is, from behind his pickets, had sent to assist them, was car- 

 ried along with it. Attempts were now made by Winchester 

 and tw« colonels, to rally these flying troops on the south side 

 of the river, but in vain. The Indians had gained their left 

 flank and taken possession of the woods in their rear. This 

 detachment in their terror and confusion attempted to pass 

 through a long narrow road, which led out of the town. The 

 savages posting themselves on both sides of this lane behind 

 its fences, shot down not a few of our troops in this road. 

 More than one hundred of our men, gained the woods on their 

 right where they were instantly surrounded by Indians, shot 

 down, scalped and tomahawked. Horrible destruction over- 

 whelmed the fugitives on all sides. Captain Simpson was 

 shot and tomahawked at the entrance into the lane. Colonel 

 Allen, though severely wounded in the thigh, attempted sev- 

 eral times to rally his men. Wounded as he was, he had es- 

 caped two miles, where exhausted with the loss of blood, and 

 worn down with fatigue, he seated himself on a log. An In- 

 dian warrior approached, and ordered to surrender.. An- 

 etfaer Indian approached with a hostile appearance, whom 



