But the Indians were now on comparatively open ground, where the regulars could see them and get at them; and under St.Clair's own leadership the troops rushed fiercely at the savages, with fixed bayonets, and drove them back to cover.

By this time the confusion and disorder were great; while from every hollow and grass patch, from behind every stump and tree and fallen log, the Indians continued their fire.

Again and again the officers led forward the troops in bayonet charges; and at first the men followed them with a will.

Each charge seemed for a moment to be successful, the Indians rising in swarms and running in headlong flight from the bayonets.

In one of the earliest, in which Colonel Darke led his battalion, the Indians were driven several hundred yards, across the branch of the Wabash; but when the Colonel halted and rallied his men, he found that the savages had closed in behind him, and he had to fight his way back, while the foe he had been driving at once turned and harassed his rear.
He was himself wounded, and lost most of his command.