In this respect it differs markedly from most other Indian fights of the same time; and many of its particulars render it noteworthy.

Moreover, it had a very good effect, cheering the frontiersmen greatly, and enabling them to make head against the discouraged Indians.
On the same day the Watauga fort[38] was attacked by a large force at sunrise.

It was crowded with women and children,[39] but contained only forty or fifty men.

The latter, however, were not only resolute and well-armed, but were also on the alert to guard against surprise; the Indians were discovered as they advanced in the gray light, and were at once beaten back with loss from the loopholed stockade.

Robertson commanded in the fort, Sevier acting as his lieutenant.