Most of the horses were driven off or killed, and the men fled to the fort, which, Adair dryly remarked, proved "a place of safety for the bashful"; but he rallied fifty, who drove off the Indians, killing two and wounding others.

Of his own men six were killed and five wounded.

[Footnote: Am.

State Papers, IV., 335.

Adair to Wilkinson, Nov.