In July the British captains Caldwell and McKee came down from Detroit with a party of rangers, and gathered together a great army of over a thousand Indians [Footnote: Haldimand MSS.

Letter from Capt.

Caldwell, August 26, 1782; and letter of Captain McKee, August 28, 1782.

These two letters are very important, as they give for the first time the British and Indian accounts of the battle of the Blue Licks; I print them in the Appendix.]--the largest body of either red men or white that was ever mustered west of the Alleghanies during the Revolution.

They meant to strike at Wheeling; but while on their march thither were suddenly alarmed by the rumor that Clark intended to attack the Shawnee towns.