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Show , TRAV •LS THROUGli UPPER CANADA: r 1 · t u01 The fecond d.ty fuhfequcnt thy, they did not move Jrom t letr am' . • . niT<·d over wt. t h out }1 1. s d raw.w g n e··: u-cr t them.' but tul.l y pc rfuaded tlut lh ·e \x.·oulcl come up · h 1 0 1 the next they fitll lay concc.1lcd WIt t 1em r ' . m. 1 . 1 The third d·q proved to be extremely ramy and t 1 • fame p ace . ' .. 1 , , _ n d the fcouts h:wing brought wnrci, that f1om t 1e 1110\C t ·mpcnuous, :1n • . . f 1 · . 1 mcnts G• l:ncr::t 1 \IV·. tyn 1t.. wl maLl e there was no ltlzcbhood o 11. s mat 1- ing toward them that day, the I ndians, now hungry after ha_vmg f<t!l.cd for three en tire days, tkt · d ·[· f. th ··r :-tmbu(h 111 ortkr to Tll11llC t n e rom 1 • . • • . ta1 · e i.o mc rc f re fl1 m"" J•' t • 1'hcy· accordinnb ly did f(, an d havlllg no iufpt-cion of an attacl , began to c~ t their food in fccurity. Before they began to cat, the Indians had divid ·d thcmfdvcs, I 1 utfl: obf~.·rvc, into three divil1ons, in order to m·u·ch to another quat ter, where they hoped to furprift: the nrmy of the tJtes . In th i fituation, howev r, they were themfdvcs furprifcd by General Way ~1c:. ~Ic h <H.~ reccivrJ intelligcnc~ from h is (couts, now equally cunntng Wtth. thofe ~f the Indi.lnS, of their proceedings, and h av ing made fume motwns as 1f he intcnd ... d to move to anot her part of the country, in order to put them o ff th ·i r guard, he fu,ltkllly turned, and fent his li~ht boric pouring down on them when they lcJ.fl: cxpctl:cd it. The Indians were thrown into confufion, a eire mfl:ance wl ich with them never fails t~ occafi~n _a defc1 t; they made but a fain t refiftance, and then fied wtth preclpt-tnncy. On hi an·inl at Philaddphia, in the beginning of the year 1796, I was introduced to General Wayne, and I had then an oppor tu nity of fCl:ing the plan of all his I ndian campaigns. A mofl: pompous account W<lS given of this viClory, and the plan of it excited: as indeed it w~ll might, the wonder and admiration of all the old officers who faw It. The Indians were reprdented as drawn up in three lin es, one behind the other, and after receiving with firmnefs the charge of the American army, as endeavouring wi th great ikill and adroitnefs to turn its flanl s, when, by the fudden appearance of the Kentucky riflemen and the light cavalry, they were put to flight. From the regularity with which the Indians fought on this occafion, it was argued that they mufl: doubtlefs have been conduCted by Briti!h officers of ikill and experience. II ow ' ~ A C E '\' I T ri T HE I N D I AN S. lio-v abii1rcl thi w hole plan \:nls, howevc r7 was plainly to b" d ·duccd fi om the following circumi1ancc, nll wed both by the gc!)CL 1 and his a ides de camp, namely, th:lt during the whole :-tClion the American army dirl not ft·c f1fty I 11dians; and indeed ev ry p rfon wh h.1 read an account of the Indians rn ull know th,lt they never come into the field in fu ch rc:gular nrray, but always fig 1t under coven, b hi,1d tree or bufhc , in the mof~ irregular manner. Not with{bnding tlJe g reat pains that we re taken formerly, both by the French and Englifl 1, they ne ver could be brought to fight in any other mnnncr. It was in thi. manner, and no other, as I he arJ from {~ vera! men who were in the acrion with them, t hat they fough t againfl General Wayne ; each one, as foon as the American troops wcrl: clcfcri cd, infiantly fhelt reel h imfdf, and in n:tn.:ating they fiill kept und r covert. It was by fighting them alfo in their own way, and by fending parties of his light troops and cavalry to rout them fr m th eir lurking places, that General Wayne defeated th 'm.; had he attempt ·d to have drawn up his army in the regu lar order defcribed in the pbit, h could not but h ave met with the fame fat<.: a St. Clair, :-tncl gcn rnl Braddock did on a fl nner occafion. Between thirty and fo rty Indians, who had been {hot or bayoneted a they attempted to run from one tree to another, were found dead on the field by the American army. It is fuppofed that many more were killed, but the fatl: of the matter could never be afcertained by them: a profound iil ence was obfcrved on the fu bjetl: by the Indians, fo th at I never c.auld learn accurately how many of them had fallen; that however is an immaterial circumfl:ancc; fuflicc it to fay that the enoagemcnt foon induced the Indians to fue for a pea c. CommifEoner were deputecl by the government of the United tates to meet their chiefs; tbe prelin1in a ri s were foon arranged, and a trea ty was concluded, by which the Indians rclinquin1ed a very confiderable 1 art of their te rritory, bordering upon that of the United States. The lafl: and principal ceremony obferved by the Indians i11 concluding a peace, is that of burying the batchct. When this ceremony came to be performed, one of the chiefs arofe, and lamenting that the Jail 3 B peace: |
