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on tho 5th of October, they found the enemy encamped. The 

 American army was instantly formed in the order of battle, and 

 the armies engaged with the utmost fury. The battle ended in 

 the entire destruction of Proctor's army. But, as many readers 

 may wish to know more of the particulars, we will recapitulate 

 a few events, preceding as well as during this battle. On the 

 2nd day of October 1813, Harrison and Shelby at the head of 

 more than three thousand men left Detroit, and after reaching, 

 followed up the Thames. They halted for the first night, at the 

 end of twenty-six miles. Early the next morning, the army was 

 in motion pressing forward until they fell in with a British 

 guard, which Proctor had left behind him to destroy the bridges. 

 This force was captured at once. On the next day, Harrison 

 and his army were detained some time, by a deep creek, across 

 which, the enemy had posted some Indians, after partly de- 

 stroying the bridge. To repair this bridge, and to repel the 

 enemy, Harrison ordered forward Major Ball with the artillery, 

 and colonel Richard M. Johnson with his dragoons/ These 

 orders were instantly obeyed. The enemy was dislodged 

 and driven off, with considerable loss, and the bridge, being 

 repaired, the army moved forward again rapidly. Here, our 

 army captured two thousand stands of arms, which they found 

 in a magazine. Here too, the enemy had towed up such 

 vessels as could ascend the river, and on the approach of our 

 army, this flotilla was set on fire by the enemy. On the next 

 day, October 5th, moving forward, our army took considerable 

 public property from the enemy, on the spot where their flying 

 foe, had encamped on the night preceding. Colonel Johnson's 

 dragoons were ordered forward to reconnoiter the ground and find 

 the enemy. Soon afterwards, Johnson returned to camp, hav- 

 ing found the enemy drawn up in battle array. The British 

 were drawn up on a strip of ground, narrow in front; their left 

 resting on the river, and their right, resting on a morass, be- 

 yond which, in a thick forest of undergrowth, lay Tecumseh 

 and his savage warriors, more than two thousand strong. On 

 this narrow strip, where the British were posted with their 

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