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The War Chief of the Ottawas

CHAPTER IV
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The shattered remnant of Dalyell's confident forces arrived at Fort Detroit at eight in the morning, after six hours of marching and desperate battle, exhausted and crestfallen.
Dalyell had been slain--an irreparable loss.

The casualty list was twenty killed and forty-two wounded.

The Indians had suffered but slightly.

However, they gained but little permanent advantage from the victory, as the fort had still about three hundred effective men, with ample provisions and ammunition, and could defy assault and withstand a protracted siege.
In this fight Chippewas and Ottawas took the leading part.

The Wyandots had, however, at the sound of firing crossed the river, and the Potawatomis also had joined in the combat, in spite of the truce so recently made with Gladwyn.


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