... four of them straggled in the rear, their crewstugging at the long sweeps or oars. Two of the faster of these, the Scorpion and the Ariel, were slipping alongin the van where they supported the ... to save them and it was the intervention of Tecumseh, the Indian leader, which averted the massacre of the whole body of five hundredprisoners.Across the river, Colonel John Miller, of the American ... Because the British swayon the Great Lakes was unchallenged, the general situation of the enemy was immensely better than it hadbeen at the beginning of the campaign. During a year of war the United...