An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . as hehad accumulated provisions for twenty days. That officer was tobuild huts there, in order to deceive the enemy by a belief that hewas goino- into winter quarters. Winchester arrived there on the10th of January, and on the 17th despatched Colonels Lewis andAllen with six hundred men to the river Raisin. On the road Colo-nel Lewis attacked a body of British and Indians at Frenc
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . as hehad accumulated provisions for twenty days. That officer was tobuild huts there, in order to deceive the enemy by a belief that hewas goino- into winter quarters. Winchester arrived there on the10th of January, and on the 17th despatched Colonels Lewis andAllen with six hundred men to the river Raisin. On the road Colo-nel Lewis attacked a body of British and Indians at Frenchtown,defeated them, and took possession of the place. General Winches-ter reached it on the 20th with about two hundred and fifty mien,and encan)ped in an open lot, Colonel Lewiss troops being protectedby pickets. About daylight on the 22d they were surprised by aparty of British and Indians, and the detachment of General Win-chester was thrown into complete confusion and driven across ther»ver. All atten)pts to rally were unsuccessful, although made inseveral places by General Winchester, and Colonels Lewis and crowded into a small lane, they wer=; shot down on both sides ca:\ipatgx of 18 j 8IEGB OF FOST M3IG8. hy the Indians, until the whole bi dy was nearly annihilated. Theiroops under Colonel Lewis bravely maintained their post, andrepulsed all efforts of the enemy until General Winchester capitu-lated for them. The scene following this defeat was one of butcherynever witnessed but among savages and their eniployers. WhenGeneral Winchester surrendered, Proctor, the British commander,promised that the prisoners should be saved from the fury of the In-dians. At noon he marched with the captured men to Maiden, leavinga few soldiers with the wounded Americans at Frenchtown. Atbunrise on the following dny, the Indians, who had accompanied ,returned to the village, and fired the houses containing the disabledprisoners, thrusting back all those who endeavoured
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