He had seriously weakened his own force while the column at Frenchtown was in peril from two thousand hostile troops and Indians only eighteen miles beyond the river Raisin.

The Kentuckians left with him decided matters for themselves.

They insisted on marching to the support of their comrades at Frenchtown.

Meanwhile General Harrison had learned of this fatuous division of strength and was hastening to the base at the falls of the Maumee.

There he found only three hundred men.