The action was carried on in a manner "not sanctioned by anything that I had seen or heard of," said Harrison afterwards.

This first American victory of the war on land was, indeed, quite irregular and unconventional.

It was won by Johnson's mounted riflemen, who divided and charged both the redcoats in front and the Indians in the swamp.

One detachment galloped through the first and second lines of the British infantry while the other drove the Indians into the American left wing and smashed them utterly.

Tecumseh was among the slain.