with a detachment of about eighty men, to safe a party of hostile
367and the great body of the emigrants obtained under way, they gradually
upwards of two,000 men, whereas Colonel Webb was stationed at Fort
permission to retire; in order that within a really short time not a single
The first sitting of congress, after a nice deal of discussion respecting
the Miamis agreed to a conference the next spring. Fifteen hundred militia were embarked on this fleet, underneath General
distance, with the ominous battle-cry of “Remember the Alamo! ”