Successful Engagement with the Enemy

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Type

Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document

Description

General Scott reports on a successful engagement with the savages in which his officers and men acted with gallantry and humanity despite insuperable obstacles created by the weather and terrain.

Date

06/28/1791

Recipient

Sent from

Lexington

Document number

1791062840000

Notable persons

Henry Knox
Charles Scott
mounted volunteers
General St. Clair
Indian on horseback
my guides
Colonel John Hardin
mounted infantry
troop of light horse
Captain McCoy
Captain Price
warriors
enemy
Lieutenant Colonel-Commandant Wilkinson
Captain King's and Logsdon's companies
prisoners
Captain Brown
Captain Bull
French
aged squaw
savages
volunteers of Kentucky
Captain Asheton
1st Regiment

Notable locations

Lexington
mouth of Kentucky
banks of the Ohio
Quiatanon
White River
the Wabash
Kickapoo town
town of Kethtipecanunk
Eel River
Detroit

Notable items

rain
wind
thunderstorms
horses
extensive prairie
small villages
smoke
gallantry
brisk fire
rifles
state of civilization
books
white flag
signal of parley
impulsions of humanity
councils of the enemy
approbation of my country
corn
scalping of the dead
weather
terror and desolation
insuperable obstacles
danger
glory