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On each side of the boundary-line between the United States and Canada is the Indian village of St. Regis, at the mouth of the St. Regis River.
In that village Captain McDonnell was placed, with some armed Canadian voyageurs, in September, 1812. Maj. G. D. Young, stationed at French Mills (afterwards Fort Covington), left that post on the night of Oct. 21 with about 200 men, crossed the St. Regis in a boat, a canoe, and on a hastily constructed raft, and before dawn was within half a mile of St. Regis.
There they were rested and refreshed, and soon afterwards pushed forward and surrounded the town.
Assailing the block-house, a sharp skirmish ensued, in which the British lost seven men killed, while not an American was hurt.
The spoils of victory were forty prisoners (exclusive of the commander and the Roman Catholic priest), with their arms and accoutrements, thirty-eight muskets, two bateaux, a flag, and a quantity of baggage, including 800 blankets.