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or to see them observed. Proctor and the army under him, at 

 noon, marched off to Maiden, leaving only Reynolds, and 

 two or three other officers, as a guard to protect the sick and 

 the wounded! 



Next morning about daylight, instead of sleds^ two 

 hundred Indians arrived from Maiden. They soon deter- 

 mined to murder all the wounded. Raising their frantic yells, 

 painted black, they began to plunder the houses of the inhab- 

 itants. They next broke into the houses where the wounded 

 were, plundered, tomahawked and scalped theni without mercy. 

 Soon afterwards, the houses of Jean B; Jerome and Gabriel 

 Godfrey, which contained nearly all the wounded, were set on 

 fire. In these houses were consumed most of the wounded 

 prisoners. Several who were able to crawl, endeavored to es- 

 cape at the windowsj but they were tomahawked and pushed 

 back into the houses and consumed in the flames. Others were 

 killed in the streets and thrown into the burning houses and 

 there consumed in the fire. Many were killed in the streets, 

 horridly mangled and there left by the savages. We might 

 fill several pages with these horrid details, all going to prove, 

 beyond all doubt, that Proctor, Elliot and the British officers 

 ordered these horrid murders of the wounded prisoners. But 

 what is more sickening still to the human heart, is the fact, 

 that the British government, as soon as well informed of these 

 butcheries in cold blood, of our countrymen, promoted colonel 

 Proctor, on their account, to be a major general, in their regular 

 army. What shall we say of such a government? Language 

 cannot express our horror, our scorn, and indignation, on this 

 occasion. 



In this action we lost in killed, massacred and missing, two 

 hundred and ninety men. The British captured five hundred 

 a.nd forty-seven prisoners ; the Indians, forty-five, and thirty- 

 three escaped to the rapids. When the action commenced, we 

 had eight hundred and fifty effective men, the enemy had two 

 thousand. He lost, as near as we could learn, between three 

 and four hundred men. 

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