SOI TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: 
An army was accordingly raised some time 
about the year 1790,, which was put under the 
command of General St. Clair. It consisted 
of about fifteen hundred men; but these were 
not men that had been accustomed to contend, 
against Indians, nor was the General, although 
unexperienced officer, and well able to con¬ 
duct an army against a regular force, at all 
qualified, as many persons had foreseen, and 
the event proved, to command on an expedi¬ 
tion of such a nature as he was now about to be 
engaged in. 
St. Clair advanced with his army into the 
Indian territory; occasional skirmishes took 
place, but the Indians still kept retreating be¬ 
fore him, as if incapable of making any re¬ 
sistance against such a powerful force. For¬ 
getful of the stratagems of the artful enemy 
he had to contend with, he boldly followed, 
till at last, having been drawn far into their 
territory, and to a spot suitable to their pur¬ 
pose, the Indians attacked him on all sides; 
his men w r ere thrown into confusion; in vain 
he attempted to rally them. The Indians, 
emboldened by the disorder they saw in his 
ranks, came rushing down with their toma¬ 
hawks and scalping knives. A dreadful havoc 
ensued. The greater part of the army was 
left dead on the fatal field ; and of those that 
escaped the knife, the most were taken pFi- 
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