I therefore take Boon's and Todd's dates.
McClung and Marshall make the siege last three or four days instead of less than two.
All the accounts of the battle of the Blue Licks, so far, have been very inaccurate, because the British reports have never been even known to exist, and the reports of the American commanders, printed in the Virginia State papers, have but recently seen the light.

Mr.Whitsitt, in his recent excellent "Life of Judge Wallace," uses the latter, but makes the great mistake of incorporating into his narrative some of the most glaring errors of McClung and Marshall.] They were angry and sullen at their discomfiture.

Five of their number had been killed and several wounded.

Of the fort's defenders four had been killed and three wounded.
Among the children within its walls during the siege there was one, the youngest, a Kentucky-born baby, named Richard Johnson; over thirty years later he led the Kentucky mounted riflemen at the victory of the Thames, when they killed not only the great Indian chief Tecumseh, but also, it is said, the implacable renegade Simon Girty himself, then in extreme old age.
Battle Of the Blue Licks.
All this time the runners sent out from Bryan's had been speeding through the woods, summoning help from each of the little walled towns.
The Fayette troops quickly gathered.

As soon as Boon heard the news he marched at the head of the men of his station, among them his youngest son Israel, destined shortly to be slain before his eyes.