Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Departure of Governor O'reilly in 1770;
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lie started at a run on foot to the height on which the fort lay, and though the Indians sallied out, and balls were raining around him, he held on, and reaching a troop of horses at pasture, picked out a fine mare, sprang on her back, and rode back to the camp unscathed. The same day, about eleven o'clock in the morning, a rumor 112 HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF LOUISIANA. was spread tliat D' Artaguette, commandant of the Illinois, -was approaching, and some even thought they could descry his banners,... but on examination the report was found to be unfounded.* They now thought only of retiring ; the most severely wounded were put on litters ; those slightly wounded were ordered to follow, and, the army being put in motion, they went and slept about a league from the enemy. During this march a party of our Choctaws ambushed in a little wood in our rear, fell on nine hostile Indians, who had come to scalp and search the dead, and killed them all. The next day the army resumed its march, and bivouacked about a league from the landing-place, which they reached early next morning.
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