et, joined the rifle
corps, at the instant that Capt. Hartshorn received a shot which broke
his thigh. Lieut. Craig being killed and Lieut. Marks taken prisoner,
Lieut. Drake conducted the retreat; and while endeavoring for an
instant to hold the enemy in check, so as to enable the soldiers to
bring off their wounded captain, himself received a shot in the groin,
and the retreat was resumed, leaving Capt. Hartshorn on the field.

[314] When the remnant of the troops came within the walls of the
Fort, Lieut. Michael, who had been early detached by Capt. Hartshorn
to the flank of the enemy, was found to be missing, and was given up
as lost. But while his friends were deploring his unfortunate fate,
he and Lieut. Marks, who had been early taken prisoner, were seen
rushing through the enemy, from opposite directions towards the Fort.
They gained it safely, notwithstanding they were actively pursued,
and many shots fired at them. Lieut. Marks had got off by knocking
down the Indian who held him prisoner; and Lieut. Michael had lost
all of his party, but three men. The entire loss of the Americans was
twenty-three killed, and forty wounded.[9] The riflemen brought in
ten scalps which were taken early in the action; beyond this the
enemy's loss was never ascertained. Many of them were no doubt
killed and wounded, as they advanced in solid columns up to the
very muzzles of the guns, and were afterwards seen carrying off many
of their warriors on pack horses.

At length Gen. Wayne put the army over which he had been given the
command, in motion;[10] and upon its arrival at the confluence of the
Au Glaize and the Miami of the Lakes, another effort was made for the
attainment of peace, without the effusion of blood. Commissioners were
sent forward to the Indians to effect this desirable object; who
exhorted them to listen to their propositions for terminating the war,
and no longer to be deluded by the counsels of white emissaries, who
had not the power to afford them protection; but only sought to
involve the frontier of the United States in a war, from which much
evil, but no good could possibly result to either party. The savages
however felt confident that success would again attend their arms, and
deriving additional incentives to war from their proximity to the
British fort, recently erected at the foot of the rapids, declined the
overture for peace, and seemed ardently to desire the battle, which
they knew must soon be fo