The gates were thrown open; the soldiers marched forth, and were immediately seized and bound; and the fort was looted.

With Welsh the captives were taken to the Ottawa village at Detroit, where they arrived on June 4, and where Welsh and several of the soldiers were tortured to death.
A few miles south of the present city of Lafayette, on the south-east side of the Wabash, at the mouth of Wea Creek, stood the little wooden fort of Ouiatanon.

It was connected with Fort Miami by a footpath through the forest.

It was the most westerly of the British forts in the Ohio country, and might be said to be on the borderland of the territory along the Mississippi, which was still under the government of Louisiana.

There was a considerable French settlement, and near by was the principal village of the Weas, a sub-tribe of the Miami nation.