Much even of De Haas' account is, to put it mildly, greatly embellished; as for instance his statement about the cannon (a small French gun, thrown into the Monongahela when Fort Du Quesne was abandoned, and fished up by a man named Naly, who was in swimming), which he asserts cut "a wide passage" through the "deep columns" of the savages.

There is no reason to suppose that the Indians suffered a serious loss.

Wheeling was a place of little strategic importance, and its fall would not have produced any far-reaching effects.] It would be tiresome and profitless to so much as name the many different stations that were attacked.

In their main incidents all the various assaults were alike, and that made this summer on McAfee's station may be taken as an illustration.
The Attack on McAfee's Station.
The McAfees brought their wives and children to Kentucky in the fall of '79, and built a little stockaded hamlet on the banks of Salt River, six or seven miles from Harrodsburg.

Some relatives and friends joined them, but their station was small and weak.