 | Peter Peterson Cherry - 1921 - 360 pages
...account the enemy amounted to two thousand. Our troops actually engaged were short of 900. This horde of savages with their allies, abandoned themselves...of the field of battle, which terminated under the guns of the British garrison. The loss of the enemy was more than ours. They were strewn for a considerable... | |
 | Charles M. Jacobs - 2003 - 156 pages
...Battle of Fallen Timbers became the Route at the Rapids. Wrote the exultant "Mad Anthony," "[The] horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves...full and quiet possession of the field of battle." Another eyewitness countered that the Indians had made "quite a show of fighting." Later historians... | |
 | Alan D. Gaff - 2004 - 458 pages
...two miles through the wilderness. He wrote to Secretary of War Knox, with obvious pride, "This horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves...full and quiet possession of the field of battle." General Wilkinson disagreed and wrote that "this looks more like unto a drawn battle than a victory,"... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1858 - 586 pages
...thousand combatants, the troops actually engaged against them were short of nine hundred. This horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves...of the British garrison, as you will observe by the inclosed correspondence between Major Campbell, the commandant, and myself, upon the occasion. The... | |
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From every account, the enemy amounted to two thousand combatants ; the troops actually engaged against them were short of nine hundred. This horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves to flight, and dispersed with terror and dismay, leaving... 
