He utterly destroyed a hostile Creek town, the chief of which was named Buffalo Horn.

He returned late in October, and after his return the frontiers of Eastern Tennessee had a respite from the Indian ravages.

Yet Congress refused to pay his militia for the time they were out, because they had invaded the Indian country instead of acting on the defensive.

[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Blount to Robertson, Oct.

29, 1793; _Knoxville Gazette_, Oct.