The rest got back safe to Loyalhannon.[660]
[Footnote 660: On Grant's defeat, _Grant to Forbes, no date_, a long and
minute report, written while a prisoner. _Bouquet a Forbes, 17 Sept.
1758. Forbes to Pitt, 20 Oct. 1758. Vaudreuil au Ministre, 1 Nov. 1758._
Letters from camp in _Boston Evening Post, Boston Weekly Advertiser,
Boston News Letter_, and other provincial newspapers of the time. _List
of Killed, Wounded, and Missing in the Action of Sept. 14. Gentleman's
Magazine_, XXIX. 173. _Hazard's Pennsylvania Register_, VIII. 141.
_Olden Time_, I. 179. Vaudreuil, with characteristic exaggeration,
represents all Grant's party as killed or taken, except a few who died
of starvation. The returns show that 540 came back safe, out of 813.]
The invalid General was deeply touched by this reverse, yet expressed
himself with a moderation that does him honor. He wrote to Bouquet from
Raystown: "Your letter of the seventeenth I read with no less surprise
than concern, as I could not believe that such an attempt would have
been made without my knowledge and concurrence. The breaking in upon our
fair and flattering hopes of success touches me most sensibly. There are
two wounded Highland officers just now arrived, who give so lame an
account of the matter that one can draw nothing from them, only that my
friend Grant most certainly lost his wits, and by his thirst of fame
brought on his own perdition, and ran great risk of ours.
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