helby, however, brought up a regiment to its support, and the
enemy, receiving a severe fire in front, and a part of Johnson's
regiment having gained their rear, retreated with precipitation.
Their loss was very considerable in the action and many were
killed in their retreat.

I can give no satisfactory information of the number of Indians
that were in the action, but they must have been considerably
upwards of one thousand. From the documents in my possession
(General Proctor's official letters, all of which were taken),
and from the information of respectable inhabitants of this
territory, the Indians, kept in pay by the British, were much
more numerous than has been generally supposed. In a letter to
General de Rottenburg, of the 27th instant, General Proctor
speaks of having prevailed upon most of the Indians to accompany
him. Of these it is certain that fifty or sixty Wyandot warriors
abandoned him.

A British officer, of high rank, assured one of my aids-de-camp,
that on the day of our landing, General Proctor had at his
disposal upwards of three thousand Indian warriors, but asserted
that the greatest part had left him previous to the action.

The number of our troops was certainly greater than that of (p. 260)
the enemy, but when it is recollected that they had chosen a
position that effectually secured their flank, which it was
impossible for us to turn, and that we could not present to them
a line more extended than their own, it will not be considered
arrogant to claim for my troops the palm of superior bravery.

In communicating to the President, through you, Sir, my opinion
of the conduct of the officers who served under my command, I am
at a loss how to mention that of Governor Shelby, being convinced
that no eulogium of mine can reach his merits. The governor of an
independent State, greatly my superior in years, in experience
and in military character, he placed himself under my command,
and was not more remarkable for his zeal and activity, than for
the promptitude and cheerfulness with which he obeyed my orders.
The Major-Generals Henry and Desha, and the Brigadiers Allen,
Caldwell, King, Childs, and Trotter, all of the Kentucky
volunteers, manifested great zeal and activity. Of Governor
Shelby's staff, his adjuta