The Indians, thus far, had manifestly been the victors They had inflicted serious injury upon the Americans; and there is no evidence that a single one of their warriors had received the slightest harm.

This was the great object of Indian strategy.

In the wars of civilization, a great general has ever been willing to sacrifice the lives of ten thousand of his own troops if, by so doing, he could kill twenty thousand of the enemy.

But it was never so with the Indians.

They prized the lives of their warriors too highly.
On their march the troops came to a wide creek, which it was necessary to cross.