The intelligence afterwards collected would make the Indian force to consist of from one thousand to fifteen hundred warriors.

Of their loss, no estimate could be made; the probability is, that it bore no proportion to that sustained by the American army.
Nothing could be more unexpected than this severe disaster.

The public had confidently anticipated a successful campaign, and could not believe, that the general who had been unfortunate, had not been culpable.
{1792} The Commander-in-chief requested with earnestness that a court martial should sit on his conduct; but this request could not be granted, because the army did not furnish a sufficient number of officers of a grade to form a court for his trial on military principles.

Late in the session, a committee of the house of representatives was appointed to inquire into the cause of the failure of the expedition, whose report, in explicit terms, exculpated the Commander-in-chief.

This inquiry, however, was instituted rather for the purpose of investigating the conduct of civil than of military officers; and was not conducted by military men.