A strong expedition, led by Hamilton in person, would doubtless at this time have crushed them.
The Struggle in Kentucky.
As it was, there were still so few whites in Kentucky that they were greatly outnumbered by the invading Indians.

They were, in consequence, unable to meet the enemy in the open field, and gathered in their stations or forted villages.

Therefore the early conflicts, for the most part, took the form of sieges of these wooden forts.

Such sieges, had little in common with the corresponding operations of civilized armies.
The Indians usually tried to surprise a fort; if they failed, they occasionally tried to carry it by open assault, or by setting fire to it, but very rarely, indeed, beleaguered it in form.

For this they lacked both the discipline and the commissariat.