[The Winning of the West, Volume Four by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Winning of the West, Volume Four CHAPTER I 36/74
But little resistance was offered by the surprised and outnumbered savages.
Only five Americans were wounded, while of the Indians thirty-two were slain, as they fought or fled, and forty-one prisoners, chiefly women and children, were brought in, either by Scott himself or by his detachments under Hardin and Wilkinson.
Several towns were destroyed, and the crowing corn cut down.
There were not a few French living in the town, in well-finished log-houses, which were burned with the wigwams. [Footnote: American State Papers, IV., 131, Scott's Report, June 28, 1791.] Raid of Wilkinson. The second expedition was under the command of Wilkinson, and consisted of over five hundred men.
He marched in August, and repeated Scott's feats, again burning down two or three of the towns, and destroying the goods and the crops.
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