on the 5th and 6th of August, 1763, stratagem alone saved him.

Taking advantage of the intrepidity of his assailants, he feigned a retreat.

The allies hurried to charge with the utmost daring,

when two companies, that had been purposely upon their flank ; others turned and

concealed,

met them in front

;

fell

and the

Indians, yielding to the irresistible shock, were routed and put

It is a singular fact, that the actors in tragic affair were not of

this strange and

the

lower orders of the people.

They

were Presbyterians, comprising in their ranks men of intelligence, and of so much

consideration that the press

did not disnames, nor the government Stone. attempt their punishment. close their a

Bancroft

',

v,

133, 164.

O.P HUDSON'S to flight.

RWER.

The loss to the English of one hundred and fifteen

men, or about one-fourth of their force, attested the bravery of the assailants. 1

During the winter of 1764, Johnson succeeded in persuading some of the warriors of the neutral nations to unite with a company of militia under his son,

John Johnson, for the in

vasion of the Lenape territory. On the 26th of February, a company of insurgents, under command of Captain Bull, was surprised and made prisoners in their encampment near the SusThe prisoners were removed to Johnson Hall, from quehanna.

whence Bull and

York and

thirteen of his warriors

lodged in

jail,

were sent to

New

and the remainder distributed among

the confederates. Another Iroquois party under Brant, burned the Lenape town of Kanestio and six other of their large villages lying on the head waters of the Susquehanna.