Fearing to be overtaken and greatly outnumbered, the British leader retreated to Canada while the American leader was in a state of mind no less uneasy.

Harrison promptly set fire to his storehouses and supplies at the Maumee Rapids, his advanced base near Lake Erie.

Thus all this labor and exertion and expense vanished in smoke while, in the set diction of war, he retired some fifteen miles.
In such a vast hurry were the adversaries to be quit of each other that a day and a half after the fight at Frenchtown they were sixty miles apart.

Harrison remained a fortnight on this back trail and collected two thousand of his troops, with whom he returned to the ruins of his foremost post and undertook the task all over again.
The defensive works which he now built were called Fort Meigs.

For the time there was no more talk of invading Canada.