. Henry Pauling
and John Dunkin--the latter being soon succeeded by Isaac
Ruddell. The force numbered 100 men. August 25, while six of
Bowman's men were on their way to Logan's, they were attacked
by Indians, two being killed and one wounded. Before escaping,
the Indians left on the body of one of the men, several copies
of a proclamation addressed to Clark and Logan in person, by
Lieut.-Gov. Henry Hamilton, at the head of the British forces
at Detroit, offering immunity to repentant rebels.--R. G. T.

[18] See pp. 79, 80, _note_, for origin of the term "Long
Knives."--R. G. T.

[19] Edward Hand was born in Ireland. He came to America in
1774 as a surgeon's mate in the Eighth (Royal Irish) Regiment,
and soon settled in Pennsylvania as a physician. When the
Revolution broke out he joined a Pennsylvania regiment as
lieutenant colonel, and served in the siege of Boston. In
April, 1777, he was appointed brigadier-general in the
Continental army, and the first of June assumed command of Fort
Pitt. Lieut.-Gov. Henry Hamilton, of Detroit, under orders from
London, was actively engaged in stirring up the Northwest
Indians to forays on the Virginia and Pennsylvania borders,
thus harrying the Americans in the rear. Hand, in whose charge
was the frontier from Kittanning to the Great Kanawha,
determined on an aggressive policy, and in February, 1778,
undertook a campaign against the savages. An open winter, with
heavy rains, prevented the force of about 500 men--chiefly from
Westmoreland county--making satisfactory headway. Finally, the
expedition was abandoned when it had proceeded no farther than
Mahoning Creek. From the fact that this first American movement
against the savages, during the Revolution, resulted only in
the capture of non-combatants, in the almost deserted villages,
it was long known as "the squaw campaign." Hand was a competent
officer, but was much pestered, at Fort Pitt, with the
machinations of tories, who were numerous among the borderers.
Succeeded at Fort Pitt in 1778, by Brig.-Gen. Lachlan McIntosh,
Hand in turn succeeded Stark in command at Albany. We find him,
in 1779, actively engaged on Sullivan's campaign against the
New York Indians, and in 1780 he becam