As a feat of arms, the expedition was not a very brilliant affair.

The Virginians and Marylanders killed half a dozen Indian chiefs during a parley, and then invested the fort.

After repulsing several sorties, they stupidly allowed the Indians to escape in the night and carry murder and pillage through the outlying settlements, lighting up first the flames of savage war and then the fiercer fire of domestic insurrection.

In the next year we hear again of John Washington in the House of Burgesses, when Sir William Berkeley assailed his troops for the murder of the Indians during the parley.

Popular feeling, however, was clearly with the colonel, for nothing was done and the matter dropped.