[N° 80. To Major Gen'l Knox Secretary from —] Head Quarters Greeneville 7. July 1794. Sir, At 7 o'Clock in the morning of the 30 ultimo, one of our escorts consisting of ninety riflemen & fifty Dragoons commanded by Major McMahon was attacked by a very numerous body of Indians under the walls of Fort Recovery followed by a general assault upon that Port & Garrison in every direction.— The Enemy were soon repulsed with great slaughter, but immediately rallied and reiterated the attack keeping up a very heavy and constant fire at a more respectable distance all that day, which was answered with spirit & effect by the Garrison & that part of Major McMahon's command that had regained the Port.— The Savages were employed during the night which was dark & foggy in carrying off their dead by torch light which occasionally drew a fire from the Garrison; they nevertheless succeeded so well that there were but eight dead bodies left upon the field & three close under the influence of the fire from the Fort. The enemy again renewed the attack in the morning of the 1 instant but were ultimately compelled to retreat about one o'clock of that day with loss & disgrace from that very field where they had upon a former occasion been proudly victorious.— Enclosed is a particular & general return of the killed, wounded & missing — among the killed we have to lament the loss of four good & gallant officers viz. Major McMahon, Capt. Hartshorne, Lieut Craig of the rifle corps & Cornet Torrey of the Cavalry, who all fell in the first charges; among the wounded are the intrepid Capt. Taylor of the Dragoons and Lieut Drake of the Infantry.— It would appear that the real object of the enemy was to have carried that Port by a coup de main, for they could not possibly have received intelligence of the escort under Major McMahon which only marched from this place on the morning of the 29 ultimo & deposited the supplies the same morning at Fort Recovery, from whence the escort was to have returned at reveille the next morning; therefore then being found at that Post was an accidental &, perhaps, unfortunate moment — by every information as well as from the extent of their movements, which were perfectly square & regular and the line of march in Seventeen columns forming a wide & extended front, their numbers could not have been less than from 1500 to 2000 warriors — it would appear also that they were rather short of provision as they killed & ate a number of pack horses in their encampment the evening after the assault & also at their next encampment on their retreat which was but seven miles from Fort Recovery where they remained two nights, probably from being much encumbered with their dead and wounded — a considerable number of the Pack horses were actually loaded with the dead.— Permit me now Sir, to express my highest approbation of the bravery & undauntedness of every officer & soldier of the Garrison & escort upon this trying occasion; and as it would be difficult to discriminate between officers equally meritorious & emulous for glory I have directed the Adjutant General to annex the names of every officer of the garrison & escort who were fortunate enough to escape uninjured, being equally exposed to danger with those who are less fortunate. But I should be wanting in my gratitude were I to omit mentioning in particular Capt. Alex. Gibson of the 4^th Sub Legion the Commandant & gallant defender of Fort Recovery.— Here it may be proper to relate certain facts & circumstances which almost amount to positive proof that there were a considerable number of the British & the militia of Detroit mixed with the Savages in the assault upon Fort Recovery on the 30. ultimo & 1 instant. I had detached three small parties of Chickasaw & Choctaw Indians a few days previous to that affair towards Grand Glaize in order to take & obtain prisoners for the purpose of gaining intelligence; — one of these parties fell in with a large body of Indians at the place marked [undecipherable] town on Harmar's route on the evening of the 27 ultimo, apparently bending their course towards Chillicothe on the Great Miami — this party returned to Greeneville on the 28^th with this further information that there were a great number of white men with the Indians.— The other two parties got much scattered in following the trails of the hostile Indians at some distance in the rear & were