all, this faithful ally
and courageous savage, gave one last, stern, defiant look, at the foe,
and breathed no more. General Proctor and his personal staff, with a
few men, had previously sought safety by flight to Ancaster. And this
remnant of the right division, including Proctor and seventeen
officers, amounting to only two hundred and forty-six men, arrived at
Ancaster on the 17th of October.

Harrison was greatly superior in numbers, and had cavalry, which
Proctor was entirely without. The Kentucky cavalry were accustomed to
fighting in the forest, and were expressly armed for it. Proctor did
not exhibit ordinary judgment in his selection of ground. He had hardly
time to cut down trees and to entrench himself, and the probability is
that he was not aware of the enemy's possession of cavalry, and
therefore was less prudent in his choice of ground than otherwise he
would have been. Harrison, the American commander, had no less than
3,500 men with him, and as he captured only 25 British officers and 609
rank and file, all that surrendered, while two hundred and forty-six in
all only escaped, the mishap to Proctor who was personally a brave
officer, as he had repeatedly proved, ought not to have excited
surprise. But the disaster following as it did, and as should have been
expected, the calamity on Lake Erie, the Governor-in-Chief was highly
incensed, and nearly sacrificed Proctor to public opinion. He abused
him and his army in no measured terms, in general orders. He contrasted
the conduct of the soldiery with that of Tecumseh and his Indians. He
charged the Adjutant-General Reiffenstein with gross prevarication. He
sneered at the captured, few of whom had been rescued by an honorable
death from the ignominy of passing under the American yoke, and whose
wounds pleaded little in mitigation of the reproach. The officers in
retreating from Detroit, Sandwich and Malden, seemed to have been more
anxious about their baggage than they had afterwards been about their
honor. The enemy had attacked and defeated Proctor and his right
division without a struggle. He could not indeed fully disclose to the
British army the full extent of disgrace which had fallen upon a
formerly deserving portion of the army. Sir George Prevost who had
himself behaved so well at Sackett's Harbour, and who afterwards acted
so honorably towards Commodore Downie, at Plattsburgh, did not spare an
officer whom he had himself raised to the rank of Bri