Cameron's letter of July 15th in the Haldimand MSS.

says seven hundred.

Some of them were Virginians who had been designed for Clark's assistance in his Illinois campaign, but who were not sent him.

Shelby made a very clever stroke, but it had no permanent effect, and it is nonsense to couple it, as has been recently done, with Clark's campaigns.] under the command of Evan Shelby; Isaac Shelby having collected the supplies for the expedition by his individual activity and on his personal credit.

The backwoodsmen went down the river so swiftly that they took the Chickamaugas completely by surprise, and the few warriors who were left in the villages fled to the wooded mountains without offering any resistance.