McKee says the Indians lost but 19 men, and that but 400 were engaged, specifying the Wyandots and Ottawas as being those who did the fighting and suffered the loss; and he puts the loss of the Americans, although he admits that they won, at between 300 and 400.  He was furious at the defeat, and was endeavoring to minimize it in every way.  He does not mention the presence of Caldwell’s white company; he makes the mistake of putting the American cavalry on the wrong wing, in trying to show that only the Ottawas and Wyandots were engaged; and if his figures, 19 dead, have any value at all, they refer only to those two tribes; above I have repeatedly shown that he invariably underestimated the Indian losses, usually giving the losses suffered by the band he was with as being the entire loss.  In this case he speaks of the fighting and loss as being confined to the Ottawas and Wyandots; but Brickell, who was with the Delawares, states that “many of the Delawares were killed and wounded.”  All the Indians were engaged; and doubtless all the tribes suffered proportionately; and much more than the Americans.  Captain Daniel Bradley in his above quoted letter of Aug. 28th to Ebenezer Banks (Bradley MSS.) says that between 50 and 100 Indians were killed.] It was an easy victory.  The Indians suffered much more heavily than the Americans; in killed they probably lost two or three times as many.  Among the dead were white men from Caldwell’s company; and one white ranger was captured.  It was the most complete and important victory ever gained over the Northwestern Indians, during the forty years’ warfare to which, it put an end; and it was the only considerable pitched battle in which they lost more than their foes.  They suffered heavily among their leaders; no less than eight Wyandot chiefs were slain.

    The British in the Fort.

From the fort the British had seen, with shame and anger, the rout of their Indian allies.  Their commander wrote to Wayne to demand his intentions; Wayne responded that he thought they were made sufficiently evident by his successful battle with the savages.  The Englishman wrote in resentment of this curt reply, complaining that Wayne’s soldiers had approached within pistol shot of the fort, and threatening to fire upon them if the offence was repeated.  Wayne responded by summoning him to abandon the fort; a summons which he of course refused to heed.  Wayne then gave orders to destroy everything up to the very walls of the fort, and his commands were carried out to the letter; not only were the Indian villages burned and their crops cut down, but all the houses and buildings of the British agents and traders, including McKee’s, were levelled to the ground.  The British commander did not dare to interfere or make good his threats:  nor, on the other hand, did Wayne dare to storm the fort, which was well built and heavily armed.

    The Army Marches Back.