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way to the fort. General Clay, did the same. Harrison sent 

 out Major Alexander of the Pennsylvania volunteers, to aid and 

 protect the Kentuckians. The Indians increased in numbers 

 on this flank, and finally, crawled along from stump to stump, 

 to within, one hundred and fifty yards of the fort. Boswell 

 (newly arrived,) Alexander and Herring, were ordered to charge 

 them, which they did, with alacrity. The savages were driv- 

 en off, and Clay, and his four hundred men safely entered the 

 fort. All this was done before Dudley reached the British 

 works. And at the moment when Dudley and his detachment 

 began their attack on the enemy's batteries, Colonel John Mil- 

 ler with two hundred and fifty men, consisting of United States 

 regulars, Pennsyvlania and Virginia volunteers and Sebree's 

 Kentucky militia, in all, two hundred and fifty men, being 

 ready, and drawn up in a ravine near the east end of the fort, 

 marched rapidly, ascending the hill along the ravine until with- 

 in two hundred yards of the enemy's batteries, they came into 

 an open, level plain. Here they were fired upon, by three com- 

 panies of British regulars, on their right; two companies of 

 Canadian militia; and Tecumseh and his warriors, on their 

 left. In front, the enemy's three pieces of cannon, a howitzer 

 and two hundred men, poured down upon our troops, a storm of 

 lead and iron. Assailed by four times their own numbers, they 

 were compelled, at the end of one hundred yards, to close up 

 their lines. Then with the fury of the tornado, and the storm, 

 they swept away all opposition. They spiked and rendered 

 useless the enemy's guns and mortar, drove off, killed, wound- 

 ed or captivated all this hostile force. 



Miller and his men returned to the garrison. On both sides 

 of the river, the sorties were victorious. So the noble concep- 

 tion of Harrison, had been nobly executed, on both sides of the 

 Maumee. 



After this last sortie, a British officer, major Chambers, 

 bearing a flag of truce, was seen crossing the river from the 

 enemy's side of the Maumee, and he landed on the beach under 

 our fort. Major Hukill the general's aid, was sent to receive 

 him. The officer told his errand; that he came to demand the 



