But the blow was only severe enough to anger and unite them, not to cripple or crush them.

All the other western tribes made common cause with them.

They banded together and warred openly; and their vengeful forays on the frontier increased in number, so that the suffering of the settlers was great.

Along the Ohio people lived in hourly dread of tomahawk and scalping knife; the attacks fell unceasingly on all the settlements from Marietta to Louisville..