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ans, near Dudley, drew the attention of his men, a large detach- 

 ment, three times Dudley's number approached him, at the bat- 

 teries, and, and rushing on our exulting troops, in a few min- 

 utes, killed forty or fifty Kentuckians ; wounded some seventy- 

 five and captured five hundred and fifty prisoners. One hun- 

 dred and fifty, on our extreme left of this detachment, escaped 

 to their boats, crossed the river, and reached fort Meigs in safe- 

 ty, carrying their wounded along with them. 



The enemy now found himself in a very crippled condition. 

 His guns and mortars were rendered useless; and he had lost 

 more in killed, wounded and prisoners, than the besieged. 

 Proctor agreed to an exchange of prisoners, and also to account 

 for the difterence hereafter, Harrison having taken more pris- 

 oners than Proctor. 



Our loss during the siege, was as follows : killed eighty-one ; 

 wounded one hundred and eighty nine; total killed and wound- 

 ed, two hundred and seventy. Sixty four, were killed ha the 

 sorties, and one hundred and twenty-four wounded. The 

 remainder, eighty-one, were killed and wounded within the 

 fort. Dudley's detachment is not included in this estimate. 

 Proctor finding himself completely baffled, in all his attempts 

 to take this garrison, set himself seriously to work, to draw off 

 his forces, in the best order he could do. During the succeed- 

 ing three days and an half, he labored with this view, and on 

 the 9th day of May, 1813, at noon, annoyed seriously, by our 

 artillery, he sailed down the bay, and soon disappeared from 

 the view of our garrison. 



General Harrison, satisfied that Proctor would not return 

 very soon, left the fort and went to Lower Sandusky, where 

 he arrived on the 12th day of May. Here he found governor 

 Meigs, and a large force of Ohio militia, who had come to 

 relieve fort Meigs. Passing onwards, through Upper San- 

 dusky and Delaware, to Franklinton, he found the entire 

 road covered with Ohio militia, all pressing forward to raise 

 the siege of Fort Meigs. Not one of these militia being 

 needed at that time, the General, on the 16th at Franklinton 

 issued a general order, dismissing these troops. The order 



