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uitted I),ece’Chillicothe, Aug. 12.)f 1ny Important from the Army.Id nou Extract of a letter from a volunteer 'who Slight marched from this /dace on the 21 st nit.fame t0 °?U' the editors' dated Ra/iids ofMiami) August 8, 1812.s ’ ' “ We arrived here 5 days ago, all in*ss ol g00C] health and spirits. There has no-ch is tiling extraordinary happened on our march so far. We have had good weath-en to er—bad roads and very bad water ; three Indian alarms, which happily ended with-tions oUt any bloodshed. We have been wait-3 pro- ing here for two companies of men from guine Stark and Columbiana counties, one ofive of which arrived Thursday evening, the o* her went by water to the river Raisin, enng' The company that has arrived contains or it. about 45 lighting men, which with 12 re-pate- Sulars of the 4th regt. which joined us atdi in Menaryls block-house—-30 from the block-house here—and some picked up 111 °‘ on the road, make our force amount to it bo- from 150 to 200 men. There are expres-ppp_ ses arriving continually, a number of: pro- whl(rh are suspected to be spies : From .* ^ the information of those, that 1 think can uiose reiied on, it appears that the British ai la- have taken possession of Brownstown, stab- which is 7 m les bom Maiden, and immediately on the road io Detroit; they have H stationed about 2 or 3 )0 Indians there, which skuik • about and every now andis 1amabc1timnexTdezo’clpleiEliolilenjTtheAuDes11Heandhimandthen kill and scalp travellers. At the|ancl othe head of the' Indians is Tecumseh. Gen. Ithil tel/a- Muir detached 200 riflemen, which at-' ms- tacked the Indians at Browpstown. Atissu- the same time cannon was heard in the Bri irles- direction of Malden. There is little he doubt but we snail have an engagementsim to f tobetween this and Detroit. We suspect s ment strongly, that there are spies continually— » • i oinition. hovering round our camp. We are just f the starting from here and wiil reach DetroitSOUeitled at in 5 days, if not slopped at the river Rai- arn:ches sin.” * ancn-, in? paiExtract of a letter from the xnmp hlnr*
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Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Kentucky, US
Tue, Aug 18, 1812
Page 3
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Greene C.
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