He did not seem to realize that he was himself in danger of attack.

When some fifty miles or so from the Miami towns, on the last day of October, sixty of the militia deserted; and he actually sent back after them one of his two regular regiments, thus weakening by one half the only trustworthy portion of his force.
[Footnote: Bradley MSS.

In his journal Captain Bradley expresses his astonishment at seeing the regiment and his inability to understand the object in sending it back.

Captain Bradley was not over-pleased with his life at the fort; as one of the minor ills he mentions in one of his letters to Ebenezer Banks: "Please deliver the enclosed letter to my wife.

Not a drop of cider have I drinked this twelve month."] The Last Camp.
On November 3d the doomed army, now reduced to a total of about fourteen hundred men, camped on the eastern fork of the Wabash, high up, where it was but twenty yards wide.