Repeatedly dislodged by the bayonet, they as repeatedly returned to the attack; and, driven from one quarter, rallied upon another, with a tenacious and unshaken valor becoming in men who were defending the passes to the bosom of their country.

From eight in the morning until noon, the fight was continued, not only without intermission, but seemingly without any decisive results on either side.
But, at length, the patient resolution of the whites prevailed; and, about two o'clock in the day, the field was yielded by the reluctant Cherokees to their superior foes.

This victory determined the fate of Etchoee, a town of considerable size, which was reduced to ashes.
* Weems, p.21.

Horry's MS.

Memoir, p.