Desperate scuffling ensued in which the whites with difficulty freed themselves and ran for the fort.
Calloway had prepared for emergencies.

The pursuing Indians were met with a deadly fire.

After a defeated attempt to mine the fort the enemy withdrew.
The successful defense of Boonesborough was an achievement of national importance, for had Boonesborough fallen, Harrodsburg alone could not have stood.

The Indians under the British would have overrun Kentucky; and George Rogers Clark--whose base for his Illinois operations was the Kentucky forts--could not have made the campaigns which wrested the Northwest from the control of Great Britain.
Again Virginia took official note of Captain Boone when in 1779 the Legislature established Boonesborough "a town for the reception of traders" and appointed Boone himself one of the trustees to attend to the sale and registration of lots.

An odd office that was for Daniel, who never learned to attend to the registration of his own; he declined it.