All property that could not be moved was burned or destroyed, and Procter set out for Moraviantown, on the Thames River, seventy miles along the road to Lake Ontario.

Harrison, amazed at this behavior, reported: "Nothing but infatuation could have governed General Proctor's conduct.
The day I landed below Malden [Amherstburg] he had at his disposal upward of three thousand Indian warriors; his regular force reinforced by the militia of the district would have made his number nearly equal to my aggregate, which on the day of landing did not exceed forty-five hundred....

His inferior officers say that his conduct has been a series of continued blunders." Procter had put a week behind him before Harrison set out from Amherstburg in pursuit, but the British column was hampered in flight by the women and children of the deserted posts, the sick and wounded, the wagon trains, the stores, and baggage.

The organization had gone to pieces because of the demoralizing example set by its leader.

A hundred miles of wilderness lay between the fugitives and a place of refuge.
Overtaken on the Thames River, they were given no choice.