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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER IX
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He did what he could for the wounded; but that was little enough, for, of course, there were no medical stores whatever.

The Americans buried their dead in graves, and carried their wounded along on horse-litters.

The wounded loyalists were left on the field, to be cared for by the neighboring people.

The conquerors showed neither respect nor sympathy for the leader who had so gallantly fought them.

[Footnote: But the accounts of indignity being shown him are not corroborated by Allaire and Ryerson, the two contemporary British authorities, and are probably untrue.] His body and the bodies of his slain followers were cast into two shallow trenches, and loosely covered with stones and earth.


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