ny days past got some
rest.

During the siege, I got only one man wounded. Not being able to lose
many, I made them secure themselves well. Seven were badly wounded in
the fort through ports.

Almost every man had conceived a favorable opinion of
Lieutenant-governor Hamilton,--I believe what affected myself made some
impression on the whole; and I was happy to find that he never deviated,
while he stayed with us, from that dignity of conduct that became an
officer in his situation. The morning of the 25th approaching,
arrangements were made for receiving the garrison [which consisted of
seventy-nine men], and about ten o'clock it was delivered in form; and
everything was immediately arranged to the best advantage.[452-7]

FOOTNOTES:

[428-1] The first permanent settlement in Indiana was made on the Wabash
River 117 miles southwest of the present city of Indianapolis. On what
was originally the location of a prominent Indian village, the French
established a fort in 1702, and it was generally known as _The Post_. In
1736 the name of Vinsenne, an early commandant of the post, was applied
to the little settlement, and this name later came to be written
_Vincennes_, in its present form.

The English took the place in 1763; in 1778 the weak English garrison
was driven out by the forerunners of George Rogers Clark, who from
Kaskaskia sent Captain Helm to take charge. The same winter Captain Helm
and the one soldier who constituted his garrison were compelled to
surrender to the British General, Hamilton, who had come from Detroit to
recapture the fort. It was in the following February that Clark made the
final capture as told in these memoirs. Thereafter Vincennes belonged to
Virginia, who ceded it to the United States in 1783. Vincennes was the
capital of Indiana territory from 1801 to 1816.

[428-2] The selection is taken from General Clark's Memoirs.

[431-3] These were men from Vincennes whom Clark had taken from canoes
and from whom he obtained much information, although it was not given
with perfect willingness.

[437-4] It was said with some show of justice that General Hamilton had
paid the Indians a bounty on the scalps of American settlers. His course
in many ways had aroused the bitterest hatred among the colonists, and
especially among the "Big Knives."

[446-5] The letter addressed to Lieutenant-governor Hamilton read as
follows:

"SIR:--In order to save yourself from the impending storm that now