The Indians attacked in a body at daybreak when the door was opened, thinking to rush into the house; but they were beaten off, and paid dear for their boldness, for seventeen of them were left dead in the yard, besides the killed and wounded whom they carried away.

[Footnote: McKee was the commander at the fort; the block-house was owned by Col.

Andrew Donelly; Hanlon and Prior were the names of the two young men.

This happened in May, 1778.

For the anecdotes of personal prowess in this chapter see De Haas, or else Kercheval, McClung, Doddridge, and the fifty other annalists of those western wars, who repeat many of the same stories.