fleet of canoes, in which were nearly 400 Indians.  But this attempt was less successful, and, after a warm engagement, the Indian flotilla was repulsed with considerable loss, as, in a conflict with an armed vessel, they were exposed to the same disadvantages which attended their operations against fortified places.  Niagara having at length been powerfully reinforced and well supplied, the Indians abandoned all hope of reducing it, and thenceforth confined themselves to their wonted predatory hostility.  In the spring and summer of the following year, the British troops attacked them with such vigour and success, that they were compelled to propose, in Indian phrase, to bury the hatchet; and in September a treaty of peace was concluded, the conditions of which were dictated by the English.[78]

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 61:  The captain of the spies was killed and scalped on the march.  “Thus fell the brave, generous, and patriotic McCulloch, captain of the spies,”—­and in a foot note a few pages before—­“Captain McCulloch, of the spies, scalped an Indian, whom he killed in the engagement,” in Upper Canada!  We quote from Brown’s-American History, so it appears that at least one patriotic American could scalp as well as the Indians!]

[Footnote 62:  Christie’s Memoirs.]

[Footnote 63:  Christie’s Memoirs.]

[Footnote 64:  The American historian, Brown, observes:  “In the meanwhile, Michilimakinack surrendered to the British without resistance.  The indefatigable Brock, with a reinforcement of 400 regulars, arrived at Maiden; and several Indian tribes, before hesitating in the choice of sides, began to take their ground and array themselves under the British standard.”  Vol. i, page 64.—­100 regulars!]

[Footnote 65:  Now Colonel Glegg, of Thursteston Hall, Cheshire.]

[Footnote 66:  His age was then about forty.]

[Footnote 67:  The American historian, Thomson, in his “Sketches of the War,” says that General Hull surrendered “to a body of troops inferior in quality as well as number!” and he adds:  “When General Brock said that the force at his disposal authorized him to require the surrender, he must have had a very exalted opinion of the prowess of his own soldiers, or a very mistaken one of those who were commanded by the American general.”]

[Footnote 68:  Including four brass field pieces, captured with General Burgoyne, at Saratoga, in 1777, and which were retaken by the Americans, at the battle of the Thames, in October, 1813.]

[Footnote 69:  Afterwards named the Detroit.]

[Footnote 70:  Appendix A, Section 2, No. 1.  Jefferson’s Correspondence.]

[Footnote 71:  Christie’s Memoirs.]

[Footnote 72:  Doubtless an error for 1330, the entire British force.]

[Footnote 73:  There is a tradition in the editor’s family, that one of its members removed from Guernsey to England early in the seventeenth century, and that a son of his, a clergyman, settled in the island of Barbadoes, whence he or his family emigrated to the then British provinces of North America, now the United States.]