Both sides knew well what they were fighting for--the rich land held in a semicircle by the Beautiful River.
Shortly before sundown the Indians, mistaking a flank movement by Shelby's contingent for the arrival of reinforcements, retreated across the Ohio.

Many of their most noted warriors had fallen and among them the Shawano chief, Puck-e-shin-wa, father of a famous son, Tecumseh.

* Yet they were unwilling to accept defeat.

When they heard that Dunmore was now marching overland to cut them off from their towns, their fury blazed anew.

"Shall we first kill all our women and children and then fight till we ourselves are slain ?" Cornstalk, in irony, demanded of them; "No?
Then I will go and make peace." * Thwaites, "Documentary History of Dunmore's War." By the treaty compacted between the chiefs and Lord Dunmore, the Indians gave up all claim to the lands south of the Ohio, even for hunting, and agreed to allow boats to pass unmolested.