The American legion was ordered to advance with trailed arms, and rouse the enemy from his covert at the point of the bayonet, and then deliver its fire.  The cavalry, led by Captain Campbell, was ordered to advance between the Indians and the river, where the wood permitted them to penetrate, and charge their left flank.  General Scott, at the head of the mounted volunteers, was commanded to make a considerable circuit and turn their right.  These, and all the complicated orders of General Wayne, were promptly executed.  But such was the impetuosity of the charge made by the first line of infantry, so entirely was the enemy broken by it, and so rapid was the pursuit, that only a small part of the second line, and of the mounted volunteers could take any part in the action.  In the course of an hour, the savages were driven more than two miles, and within gun-shot of the British fort.

General Wayne remained three days on the field of battle, reducing the houses and corn-fields, above and below the fort, and some of them within pistol shot of it, to ashes.  The houses and stores of Col.  M’Kee, an English trader, whose great influence among the savages had been uniformly exerted for the continuance of the war, was burned among the rest.  Correspondence upon these points took place between General Wayne and Major Campbell, who commanded the British fort.  That of General Wayne was sufficiently firm; and it manifested that the latter only avoided hostilities with him, by acquiescing in the destruction of British property within the range of his guns.

On the 28th the army returned to Au Glaize, destroying all the villages and corn within fifty miles of the river.  In this decisive battle, the American loss, in killed and wounded, amounted to one hundred and seven, including officers.  Among those that fell, were Captain Campbell and Lieutenant Towles.  The general bestowed great and merited praise, for their bravery and promptitude in this affair, to all his troops.

The hostility of the Indians still continuing, the whole country was laid waste:  and forts were erected in the heart of their settlements, to prevent their return.  This seasonable victory, and this determined conduct on the part of the United States, rescued them from a general war with all the nations north-west of the Ohio.  The Six Nations had manifested resentments, which were only appeased for the moment, by the suspension of a settlement, which Pennsylvania was making at Presqu’ Isle, within their alleged limits.  The issue of this battle dissipated the clouds at once which had been thickening in that quarter.  Its influence was undoubtedly felt far to the south.  The Indian inhabitants of Georgia, and still farther to the south had been apparently on the verge of a war, and had been hardly restrained from hostility by the feeble authority of that state.