110) there seems strong reason to believe that it was simply due to the unexpectedly strong resistance of the Indians.

Bird's letter shows, what the Kentuckians never suspected, that the attack was a great benefit to them in frightening the Indians and stopping a serious inroad.

It undoubtedly accomplished more than Clark's attack on Piqua next year, for instance.] Logan, Harrod, and other famous frontier fighters went along.

The town was surprised, several cabins burned, and a number of horses captured.

But the Indians rallied, and took refuge in a central block-house and a number of strongly built cabins surrounding it, from which they fairly beat off the whites.