Apparently satisfied with this feat, Trotter marched home, having accomplished nothing.
Defeat of a Small Detachment of Troops.
Much angered, Harmar gave the command to Hardin, who left the camp next morning with two hundred men, including thirty regulars.

But the militia had turned sulky.

They did not wish to go, and they began to desert and return to camp immediately after leaving it.

At least half of them had thus left him, when he stumbled on a body of about a hundred Indians.
The Indians advanced firing, and the militia fled with abject cowardice, many not even discharging their guns.

The thirty regulars stood to their work, and about ten of the militia stayed with them.