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GLORIOUS NEWS.ciiUThe Eastern mail, expected yesterday Cl morning, arri\lt; (I after this paper was put to press. W 5 have stopped it,to in p sert the following highly interesting ‘l( intelligence.hSCIOTO GAZETTE EX IRA, JAN 23d. ^Head Quarters, J\o. th H estern ^Army, Junuury 20 bio. ^My Dear Sir, 0i have the pleasure to inform you thatthe detachment under Col. Lewis was completely successful in the attack upon! the post of the enemy at the river Raisin ; their force there, consisting of some hundred Indians, and a company ot militia, which were placed behind pickets, were attacked by our troops about 3 . o clock, on the 18th instant.The action continued until night. The Indians suffered considerably—their allies ran off with a piece ol artillery, in the commencement ol the action Our loss is about iO killed, and 2 captains and twenty privates wounded.—General Winchester, marched yesterday with 250 men, to take the command at the river Raisin. He will have about 1000 effective, and I am at this moment dispatching^. companies of Gen Perkins's brigade, My hands are so cold, that I can hardly hold the pen, which must be my excuse lor tins scrawl.WM. H. HARRISON.To R. J. Meigs.
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Lexington Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Kentucky, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1813
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