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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and Winchester sent adetachment to its relief, which compelledthe British to retreat. A little later Win-chester followed with the rest of his troopsand took position in the open country. His 526 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. whole force amounted to scarcely one thou-sand men. Hearing of Winchesters exposed posi-tion. General Proctor marched from FortMaiden, opposite Detroit, with fifteen hun-dred British and Indians, and, crossing thelake on the ice, attacked Winchester on thetwenty-second of January, and after a des-perate encounter forced him to surrender;Proctor promised Winchester that his men save his reputation by protecting his prison-ers, and his inhuman conduct in leavingthem to the fury of the savages, in violationof his pledge, met, as it deserved, the un-qualified denunciation of every honorableman. It roused a fierce spirit of revengethrougout the west. Harrison was on his march to Winches-ters assistance when he learned of hissurrender. He halted at the rapds of
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INDIANS TORTURING PRISONERS. should be treated as prisoners of war, but inviolation of his pledge set out at once onbis retreat to Maiden, leaving the woundedAmericans behind. The Indians of Proc-tors command fell upon the helplesswounded men, massacred the majority ofthem, and carried the remainder to Detroit.Some of these they offered to release on pay-ment of heavy ransoms; the others theyheld for torture. Proctor made no effort to Maumee, and built a fort which he namedFort Meigs, in honor of the governor ofOhio. Proctor advanced in the spring toattack this fort, and on the first of Mayopened his batteries upon it. A force oftwelve hundred Kentuckians, under Gen-eral Green Clay, of Kentucky, advancedto the relief of the fort, and the Britishand Indians were obliged to raise the siegeand retreat. ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES MADISON. p; General Ciay was placed in command ofFort Meigs. In July Proctor again advancedand made siege to it, but was unable to cap-ture it. Hearing that Fort St

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