[Footnote: De Quindre reported to Hamilton that, though foiled, he had but two men killed and three wounded.

In Haldimand MSS., Hamilton to Haldimand, October 15, 1778.

Often, however, these partisan leaders merely reported the loss in their own particular party of savages, taking no account of the losses in the other bands that had joined them--as the Miamis joined the Shawnees in this instance.

But it is certain that Boon (or Filson, who really wrote the Narrative) greatly exaggerated the facts in stating that thirty-seven Indians were killed, and that the settlers picked up 125 pounds' weight of bullets which had been fired into the fort.] This was the last siege of Boonsborough.

Had de Quindre succeeded he might very probably have swept the whites from Kentucky; but he failed, and Boon's successful resistance, taken together with the outcome of Clark's operations at the same time, ensured the permanency of the American occupation.