There were battles of small forces in which sometimes not a single Iroquois escaped.

Captives were retaken in a half-dozen instances, and the warriors who escaped reported that their assailants were of uncommon size and power.

They had all the cunning of the Indian and more, and they carried rifles that slew at a range double that of those served to them at the British posts.

It was a certainty that they were guided by the evil spirit, because every attempt to capture them failed miserably.
No one could find where they slept, unless it was those who never came back again.
The Iroquois raged, and so did the Butlers and the Johnsons and Braxton Wyatt.

This was a flaw in their triumph, and the British and Tories saw, also, that it was beginning to affect the superstitions of their red allies.