chmen
(Col. John Bowman), to 444 Indians and 12 Frenchmen (Boone's
Narrative, by Filson). The English Indian department was
represented by Capt. Isidore Chene, who had with him several
other French-Canadians; there was also a negro named Pompey,
who had long lived with the Indians, and served them as
interpreter; the principal chiefs were, Black Fish, Moluntha,
Black Hoof, and Black Beard.--R. G. T.

[14] The garrison numbered, old and young, white and black,
sixty persons capable of bearing arms; only forty, however,
were really effective. Women and children, dressed and armed as
men, frequently appeared upon the walls, to give an appearance
of greater strength.--R. G. T.

[15] This ruse of the Indians was discovered on Friday, the
11th. The garrison commenced its countermine immediately, and
prosecuted the work for several days. The rival parties could
hear each other at work underground. When the Indians had
proceeded about forty yards, two-thirds of the distance from
the river bank, successive rainstorms had so saturated the
earth that sections of their tunnel caved in, and this it was
that frustrated their scheme.--R. G. T.

[16] When the Indians retired from before Boonesboro, one
hundred and twenty-five pounds weight of bullets were picked up
by the garrison, besides many that stuck in the logs of the
fort. A conclusive proof that the Indians were not idle, during
the continuance of the siege.

[17] John Bowman, of Harrodsburgh, was lieutenant of
Kentucky County, and colonel of its militia. During the
spring of 1779, there was a general desire to raid the
unsuspecting Shawnees, in retaliation for their invasions of
Kentucky, and Bowman decided to command in person this "first
regular enterprise to attack, in force, the Indians beyond the
Ohio, ever planned in Kentucky." The company of volunteers of
the interior rendezvoused in May at Harrodsburgh, and under
Capts. Benjamin Logan and Silas Harlan marched to Lexington,
where they met the Boonesborough company under Capt. John
Holder, and another party under Capt. Levi Todd. At the mouth
of the Licking (site of Covington, Ky.), the general
rendezvous agreed on, they found a company from the Falls
of the Ohio (si