g--a lock of his hair was shorn
off. General Butler was shot twice; and while he was sitting, mortally
wounded, an Indian rushed in and tomahawked him.

General Saint Clair's army was being shot to pieces. He ordered
bayonet charges; but when these had cleared a little space, the Indians
re-appeared, thicker than ever. Their fire, it is recorded, "was
tremendous."

The camp was entered, and pillaged. Some two hundred and fifty women,
among them the general's dashing daughter, had come with the army; and
these suffered terribly.

After three hours' battle, the general ordered a final charge, to open
a way. Pressing behind the bayonets, the weary troops commenced a
retreat of twenty-nine miles to Fort Jefferson.

The general, on a poor pack-horse, insisted on bringing up the rear.
Out of his less than fourteen hundred soldiers, thirty-eight officers
and six hundred men were killed or missing; twenty-one officers and two
hundred and forty-two men were wounded. Fifty of the women had died.
It was as bad as the defeat of General Braddock's army, in 1755. For a
year and a half the field was covered with bleaching bones.

Little Turtle, the Missisauga chief and Simon Girty the white savage
had directed the attack. After a pursuit of four miles, seeing that
the soldiers were on the run and throwing away guns, knapsacks, and
all, they called the chase off.

It had been victory enough. They had captured seven pieces of cannon,
two hundred cattle, many horses; they returned to the villages with one
hundred and twenty scalps strung on one pole, and with three
pack-horses piled high with kegs of liquor.

Their own loss was stated to be fifty-six. Surely this was a great
triumph for Commander-in-Chief Little Turtle.

CHAPTER XI

LITTLE TURTLE FEARS THE BIG WIND (1792-1812)

AND IT BLOWS HIM INTO PEACE

President Washington was almost beside himself when he got the frank
report from General Saint Clair. Another American army--as good a
selection as had opposed the British themselves in many a battle of the
Revolution--had been fairly outwitted and fairly defeated, by Indians.

General Anthony Wayne was appointed to try next. "Mad Anthony,"
soldiers and citizens had styled him, because of his head-long valor in
the Revolution. He was a good man for the job, if he did not act too
fast and get ambushed.

He took his time. The army of the United States was reorganized into
the Legion of the United Stat