them of their blankets, and tomahawking them without mercy. Captain Paschal Hickman, who had been wounded, was drawn to the door, tomahawked, and thrown back into the house, the house set on fire, and the greater part of the wounded within were consumed in the conflagration. Those who were able to crawl attempted to get out of the windows, but they were pushed back, and some who were not in the house were killed and thrown into the flames, while many more were tomahawked and inhumanly massacred and left in the streets and along the road. A few, who were able to march, were started toward Malden, but upon the slightest sign of fatigue they were tomahawked and left lying in the road. The fate of Major Graves was never known. He started toward Detroit, but no tidings have ever come of his whereabouts. Some of the prisoners made their escape, while others were burned at the stake. Ordinarily, a government like the British would have hanged a commander like Proctor for such conduct, but in the state of public mind then in Great Britain he received promotion for his conduct. The Forty-first Regiment of British troops was badly cut up. Both General Winchester and Major Madison protested to Proctor against the violation of his contract. The renegade, Captain Elliott, in response to solicitations for assistance and help to the wounded, replied: "The Indians are very excellent surgeons." On arrival at Amherstburg, the Americans were placed in an old mud hut, where they were exposed all night to a heavy rain without beds or blankets, and scarcely enough fire to keep them from freezing. They were thus exposed to the intensest suffering. On the 26th of January the prisoners, some of whom were wounded, were sent up Detroit River and up the Thames River, and carried through the interior of Upper Canada to Fort George at Niagara. They were subsequently paroled and returned to Kentucky. General Winchester, Colonel Lewis, and Major Madison were sent to Quebec, where they were kept in confinement until 1814, when in a general exchange they were released and returned home. These horrible barbarities, together with the fact that the American dead were left unburied, created the intensest indignation and the fiercest hate among the people of Kentucky who had thus suffered by these atrocities. Another event, known as Dudley's defeat, occurring on the 28th of April, 1813, had aroused widespread excitement and horror in the minds of Kentuckians. Governor Shelby had sent General Green Clay forward with reinforcements to General Harrison, who was then at Fort Meigs, at the Rapids of the Maumee. General Clay arrived close to the fort on the 4th day of May, and communicated by messenger with General Harrison, who directed him to send eight hundred men as he advanced to the relief of the fort; to cross the Maumee River at a point one and a half miles above Fort Meigs, and then, marching down the river a short distance, capture some batteries, spike the guns composing them, and recross the river. Colonel William Dudley was designated to take charge of this movement. By some misunderstanding of orders, after taking the batteries Colonel Dudley's troops pursued some Indians who were seen in proximity to the batteries. They were led into an ambuscade; Colonel Dudley himself was wounded and killed, and almost the entire force captured. The prisoners were subjected to massacre by the Indians, and after they had been corralled in the fort a large number of them, in the presence of British officers, were ruthlessly and wantonly shot down. Tecumseh, hearing the firing, rode up and ordered the cessation of this murderous policy, and protected the remaining prisoners from death at the hands of the savages. The prisoners were subsequently paroled, May 11th, and upon their return to their homes told of the horrors and barbarities to which they were subjected by their foes. The |