Their lives, however, were spared; and early in July, when the Wyandots made with Gladwyn the peace which they afterwards broke, Christie and a number of his men were the first prisoners given up.
A few miles inland, south of Presqu'isle, on the trade-route leading to Fort Pitt, was a rude blockhouse known as Le Boeuf.

This post was at the end of the portage from Lake Erie, on Alleghany Creek, where the canoe navigation of the Ohio valley began.

Here were stationed Ensign George Price and thirteen men.

On June 18 a band of Indians arrived before Le Boeuf and attacked it with muskets and fire-arrows.

The building was soon in flames.