These at once fell back.

The Indians raised their war whoop, and, spreading right and left among the trees, opened a sharp fire upon the British.
Gage's column wheeled deliberately into line, and fired volley after volley, with great steadiness, at the invisible opponents.

The greater part of the Canadians bolted at once, but the Indians kept up their fire from behind the shelter of the trees.

Gage brought up his two cannon and opened fire, and the Indians, who had a horror of artillery, began also to fall back.
The English advanced in regular lines, cheering loudly.

Beaujeu fell dead; but Captain Dumas, who succeeded him in command, advanced at the head of his small party of French soldiers, and opened a heavy fire.
The Indians, encouraged by the example, rallied and again came forward, and, while the French regulars and the few Canadians who had not fled held the ground in front of the column, the Indians swarmed through the forests along both flanks of the English, and from behind trees, bushes, and rocks opened a withering fire upon them.