victim--the fate he deserved.

Brock also received despatches describing the daring attack by
Lieutenant Roulette, of the provincial marine, who in a small boat with
a handful of men had boarded and seized in the Detroit River a brigade
of eleven batteaux! These, loaded with food, were on their way from
Black Rock, and now carried fifty-six wounded American soldiers and two
English prisoners. This bold feat of "cutting out" took place under the
eyes of an armed escort of 250 American soldiers marching along the
river bank.

Messengers from Procter had also informed Brock of the fight at
Maguagua, fourteen miles below Detroit. It was here that Muir, with 200
regulars and militia and less than 200 Indians, instead of waiting to be
attacked, recklessly assailed a force of 600 Americans who were halted
on the edge of the oak forest, supported by two six-pounder guns.
Fighting without hope against such odds, the British were outflanked,
Muir himself wounded, and an officer killed--the second British soldier
to fall in the war of 1812. The American loss was eighteen killed and
sixty-three wounded. Though the difference in arms and men was greatly
in favour of the Americans, the British were enabled to retreat to the
river, where they regained their boats. The American force, suffering
from greater casualties, did not attempt to follow them.

Apart from the inferior strength of the British, the chief cause of
their reverse at Maguagua was the blunder of some men of the 41st, who
fired upon a body of Tecumseh's Indians. In rushing from the woods the
redmen were mistaken for the enemy, and falling into a similar error
themselves, they returned with interest the fire of the British
soldiers. The disorder that followed created a panic. While Tecumseh