four of their

number accepted the terms only to be hewn in pieces as soon as they reached his lines. The engagement was renewed Emerick charged the ridge with cavalry in overwhelming force, but was stoutly resisted. As the cavalry rode them down, the Indians seized the legs of their foes and dragged them from their saddles to join them in death. All hope of successful resistance gone, Ntmham commanded his followers to fly, but ;

for himself

exclaimed

:

" I am an

aged tree ;

I will die

here."

Ridden down by Simcoe, he wounded that officer and was on the point of dragging him from his horse when he was shot by

" The Indians fought most gal but the number engaged is riot lantly," is Simcoe's testimony Emerick reported that " near forty " of them " were stated. killed or desperately wounded." If his previous statement is " correct, that the number who had "just joined Washington was "about sixty," over one-half must have fallen in the Wright, Simcoe's orderly.

;

engagement.

To their services in that and in other engagements the testimony of Washington is added. 2

Literally did*they redeem the pledge

which they had given at Albany, the pledge of Ruth

Near forty of the Indians were killed

desperately wounded, among them Nimham, a chieftain who had been to

or

England, and his son (Simcoe's Journal}. Bolton states that eighteen bodies were recovered from the field and buried in one The loss of the British is said to pit. have been five ; but it was rare indeed