contain most information about it.] Clark destroyed all the houses and a very large quantity of corn; and he sent out detachments which destroyed another village, and the stores of some British and French Canadian traders.

Then the army marched back to the mouth of the Licking and disbanded, most of the volunteers having been out just twenty-five days.

[Footnote: Bradford MS.] Effect of the Victory.
The Indians were temporarily cowed by their loss and the damage they had suffered, [Footnote: See Haldimand MSS.

De Peyster to Haldimand, Aug.
30, 1780.] and especially by the moral effect of so formidable a retaliatory foray following immediately on the heels of Bird's inroad.
Therefore, thanks to Clark, the settlements south of the Ohio were but little molested for the remainder of the year.

[Footnote: McAfee MSS.] The bulk of the savages remained north of the river, hovering about their burned towns, planning to take vengeance in the spring.