Re-enactment of the Battle of the Thames
British soldiers retreating
Letter from Captain John Hall to Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey
(from The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier, p. 195)
Delaware, 5th October, 1813.
Sir, -- I am commanded by Major-General Procter to acquaint you, for Major-General De Rottenburg's information, the result of an affair that took place with the enemy near Moravian Town this afternoon about 4 o'clock. One of the guns being deserted early in the action the troops near it gave way, and the consequence was a complete rout, notwithstanding the exertions of the General to rally them, so much so that I thought it impossible he could escape being taken. We are just arrived here. The General is so fatigued by riding from the field of battle, the other side of the Moravian Town, through the wilderness, that he cannot write and I am not much better.
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