Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . rce and poured in a tremendous fire uponthe stockade, which was spiritedly returned, and a heavyloss was here inflicted upon the savages. Proctor finally withdrew his cannon and had aboutmade up his mind to abandon the siege when he resolvedto try a stratagem. The frozen, exhausted, old Americangeneral was brought to him. Winchester had just wit-nessed the annihilation of nearly half his force. Proctorassumed a threatening manner and declared that thestockade was practicall
Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . rce and poured in a tremendous fire uponthe stockade, which was spiritedly returned, and a heavyloss was here inflicted upon the savages. Proctor finally withdrew his cannon and had aboutmade up his mind to abandon the siege when he resolvedto try a stratagem. The frozen, exhausted, old Americangeneral was brought to him. Winchester had just wit-nessed the annihilation of nearly half his force. Proctorassumed a threatening manner and declared that thestockade was practically in the power of the British, andunless it were immediately given up he would abandon itto the Indians, with the result that all the Americanswould be massacred. The British commander said thatif the matter came to a storm he would be unable to con-trol the Indians. If, however, Winchester would orderhis men to surrender. Proctor pledged his sacred honorthat he would give the prisoners protection from the Ind-ians, treat them as prisoners of war, and allow the officersto retain their side arms and private Proctor . . had a fiery interview withthe American commander. Massacre on the River Raisin 285 Winchester, a kind-hearted old man, whose nerves hadbeen greatly shaken by the awful slaughter he had wit-nessed, for the supposed sake of his men wrote an orderdirecting Major Madison to surrender. Winchester, be-ing a captive, had no right to give an order of any kind,and no obedience would have been required from any manto such an order. So successful had been the defence of the stockade thatwhen Madisons men saw the flag of truce coming theyimagined that it might be a request for a parley to permitthe British to secure their dead and wounded and marchaway, or perhaps even surrender. Though how theycould have thought that troops in the open, capable of re-treating, would surrender to troops in a stockade is difB-cult to understand. Madisons men knew that the rightwing
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