compelled the enemy to retreat, number killed and wounded and fifty The pursuit was not taken up until the next morning, prisoners. when it was continued until evening before the enemy were A running fight then ensued Butler's Indians became reached. a brisk fire was alarmed at the havoc in their ranks and fled time the until for some who was tories, Butler, up kept by leaving forty of their

;

;

watching the fight from behind a tree, exposed his head and fell under a quick ball from an Oneida, who knew him and who was watching his motions ; his troops fled in confusion ; the Oneida

bounded across the stream that separated the contestants, and while Butler, yet living, cried for quarter, finished the work

THE INDIAN TRIBES

which he had commenced, tore from his head the reeking trophy which he sought, and bore it as a banner in the onward charge

of his comrades.

So perished

Walter N. Butler, the most heartless of all the tories who

engaged in the border wars closed frontier

the attacks

;

so

upon the

settlements of

New

York.

The gallantry of the Oneidas and Tuscaroras during the war was only exceeded by that of the Mohicans and JVappingers.

Active

in

the

campaign of

1777, tne latter joined Washington again in the spring of 1778,

and were detached with the forces under Lafayette to check the depredations of the British army on its retreat from Philadelphia. At the engagement at Barren hill they defeated a company of British troops, but not precisely in the manner of creditable war fare. Stationed in a wood at a considerable distance from the