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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IV
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make the loss "15 or 20 Indians" in the last assault, and "nearly as many" whites.

Boon's narrative says seventeen on each side.

But McKee says only six Indians were killed and three wounded; and Bombardier Homan, in the letter already quoted, says six were killed and two captured, who were afterwards slain.

The latter adds from hearsay that the Americans cruelly slew an Indian woman; but there is not a syllable in any of the other accounts to confirm this, and it may be set down as a fiction of the by-no-means-valorous bombardier.

The bombardier mentions that the Indians in their alarm and anger immediately burnt all the male prisoners in their villages.
The Kentucky historians give very scanty accounts of this expedition; but as it was of a typical character it is worth while giving in full.
The McAfee MSS.


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