Our loss in this severe and well fought action was ten killed and thirty-two wounded of the regular troops, and eight killed and twenty-eight wounded of the Ohio and Michigan militia.  The full extent of the force of the enemy is not known.  There were four hundred regulars and Canadian militia, under command of major Muir, and a considerable body of Indians under Tecumseh.  Forty of the latter were found dead on the field:  fifteen of the British regulars were killed and wounded, and four taken prisoners.  The loss of the Canadian militia and volunteers, was never ascertained, but is supposed, from the position which they occupied in the action, to have been considerable.  Both major Muir and Tecumseh were wounded.  The bravery and good conduct of the latter, in this engagement, are supposed to have led to his being shortly afterwards appointed a brigadier general, in the service of the British king.

When Detroit was captured, on the 16th of August, Tecumseh was at the head of the Indians.  After the surrender, general Brock requested him not to allow his men to ill-treat the prisoners, to which he replied, “no!  I despise them too much to meddle with them."[A]

[Footnote A:  Book of the Indians, by S.G.  Drake.]

“Tecumseh was an excellent judge of position; and not only knew, but could point out the localities of the whole country through which he passed.  His facility of communicating the information he had acquired, was thus displayed before a concourse of spectators.  Previously to general Brock’s crossing over to Detroit, he asked him what sort of a country he should have to pass through, in case of his proceeding farther.  Tecumseh, taking a roll of elm bark, and extending it on the ground by means of four stones, drew forth his scalping knife, and with the point presently etched upon the bark a plan of the country, its hills, rivers, woods, morasses and roads; a plan which, if not as neat, was for the purpose required, fully as intelligible as if Arrowsmith himself had prepared it.  Pleased with this unexpected talent in Tecumseh, also by his having, with his characteristic boldness, induced the Indians, not of his immediate party, to cross the Detroit, prior to the embarkation of the regulars and militia, general Brock, as soon as the business was over, publicly took off his sash, and placed it round the body of the chief.  Tecumseh received the honor with evident gratification; but was next day seen without his sash.  General Brock fearing something had displeased the Indian, sent his interpreter for an explanation.  The latter soon returned with an account, that Tecumseh, not wishing to wear such a mark of distinction, when an older, and as he said, abler warrior than himself, was present, had transferred the sash to the Wyandot chief, Roundhead."[A]

[Footnote A:  James’ Military Occurrences of the Late War.]