river with the same intention (Haywood). Em-aged
al this breach of the capitulation the Cherokee attacked the soldiers
next morning at daylight, killing Deniere" and twenty-nine others at
the first fire. The rest were taken ami held as pris »rs until ran-
somed some time after. The second officer, Captain Stuart (13), for
whom the Indian- had a high regard, was claimed by Ata-kullakulla.
who soon after took him into the woods, ostensibly on a hunting
excursion, and conducted him for nine days through the wilderness
until he delivered him safely into the hands of friends in Virginia.
The chief's kindness was well rewarded, and it was largely through
his influence that peace was finally brought about.
It was now too late, and the settlements were too much exhausted,
for another expedition, so the fall and winter were employed bythe
English in preparations for an active campaign the next year in force
to crush out all resistance. In June 1761, Colonel Grant with an
army of 2,600 men. including a number of Chickasaw and almost
every remaining warrior of the Catawba, 1 set out from Fort Prince
George. Refusings request from Ata-kullakulla foi a friendly accom-
modation, he crossed Rabun yap and advanced rapidly down the
Little Tennessee alone- the same trail taken by the expedition of the
previous year. On June 10, when within two miles of Montgomery's
battlefield, he encountered the Cherokee, whom he defeated, although
with considerable loss to himself, after a stubborn engagement lasting
several hours. Having repulsed the Indians, he proceeded on his
way, sending out detachments to the outlying settlements, until in
the course of a month he had destroyed every one of the