He ordered his redcoats to carry Fort Stephenson.

Again and again they marched forward until all the officers had been shot down and a fifth of the force was dead or wounded.
American valor and marksmanship had proved themselves in the face of heavy odds.

At sunset the beaten British were flocking into their boats, and Procter was again on his way to Amherstburg.

His excuse for the trouncing laid the blame on the Indians: The troops, after the artillery had been used for some hours, attacked two faces and, impossibilities being attempted, failed.
The fort, from which the severest fire I ever saw was maintained during the attack, was well defended.

The troops displayed the greatest bravery, the much greater part of whom reached the fort and made every effort to enter; but the Indians who had proposed the assault and, had it not been assented to, would have ever stigmatized the British character, scarcely came into fire before they ran out of its reach.