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Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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x-pedient of charging their line of infantry with Johnsons mounted regi-ment. Its colonel was directed to form it in close column, with its rightfifty yards from the road, its left upon the swamp, and to charge at fuLspeed upon the enemy. At the sound of the bugle, Colonel James Johnson, with the mounterriflemen, dashed upon the first British line among huge trees and overfallen timber. It broke, and scattered in all directions. The second line,thirty paces in its rear, was also broken and dispersed in the same manner.The horsemen now wheeled right and left upon the rear of the brokentroops. In less than five minutes after the first shot was fired, the wholeBritish force, eight hundred strong, was vanquished, and most of it made TECUMSEH, AND THE WAR OF 1812. 377 prisoners; only about fifty, Proctor among them, escaped. On the rightthe battle was over. On the left a simultaneous attack was made by Johnsons second bat-talion of mountedmen upon the Indians, who, under the immediate com-
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COLONKI. ItlLHAKI) M. JOHNSON. maud of Tecumseh, reserved their fire until the Americans were within afew paces of them, when they poured in a destructive volley that emptiedthe saddles of the leading files and wounded Colonel liichard M. Johnson 378 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. severely. The trees and bushes preventing the mounted men from actingwith efficiency, they dismounted, and fought on foot at close quarters. Itwas now a hand-to-hand encounter. Remember the river Raisin ! was the cry of the Kentuckians. For a while the result was doubtful. The veteran Shelby ordered upColonel John Donaldsons regiment to the support of Johnson. Tecum-seh, the great Indian leader, had fallen early in the fight, while animatinghis warriors by word and deed, and the Indians at length recoiled and fled.They scattered through the forest and were hotly pursued. In this battle Colonel Richard M. Johnson, afterwards Vice-Presidentof the United States, behaved with great gallantry. lie was mounted on

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