Colonel Nathan Denison agrees the next morning…

July 1778 CE

Colonel Nathan Denison agrees the next morning to surrender Forty Fort and two other posts, along with what remains of his militia.

Butler paroles them on their promise to take no part in further hostilities.

Non-combatants are spared and only a few inhabitants are molested after the forts' surrender.

According to one source, sixty Patriot bodies were found on the battlefield and another thirty-six on the line of the retreat.

All are buried in a common grave.

Out of one thousand men available, John Butler reports only two Loyalist Rangers and one native killed, and eight natives wounded.

He claims that his force had taken two hundred and twenty-seven scalps, burned one thousand houses, and driven off one thousand cattle plus many sheep and hogs.

Of the sixty Continentals and three hundred militiamen involved, only about sixty had escaped the disaster, though Graymont states about three hundred and forty killed. (Graymont, Barbara (1972). The Iroquois in the American Revolution. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.)

The Seneca are angered from the accusations of atrocities they say they had not committed, and at the militia taking arms after being paroled.

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