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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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An express from Buffalo reports that on Sunday morning, about 3000 British regulars, militia, and Indians crossed the Niagara River, stormed a fort, killed most of the garrison (except three escapees), massacred several families including Mollineux, Scott, and St. John, and burned villages of Lewistown and Manchester plus other buildings, with forces expected to advance to Buffalo.
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We stop the press to say that an Express has just arrived, who left Buffalo of Tuesday A. M. with the horrid intelligence, that on Sunday morning last, about 3000 British regulars, militia and Indians, crossed the Niagara river, carried the Fort by storm, and MURDERED THE WHOLE GARRISON except three, who made their escape over the pickets; that they had burnt also the villages of Lewistown and Manchester, and every building between the latter place and Niagara, and on the ridge road 11 miles as far as the arsenal; and that it was expected they were proceeding to Buffalo. The express also states, that several families had been MASSACRED, among whom were the names of Mollineux, Scott and St. John. The fact of the massacring of the garrison, is stated rather as an inference than as a certainty by one who escaped.
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Niagara River
Event Date
Sunday Morning Last
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whole garrison murdered except three who escaped; several families massacred including mollineux, scott, and st. john; villages of lewistown and manchester burnt, plus every building between manchester and niagara and on the ridge road 11 miles to the arsenal.
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About 3000 British regulars, militia and Indians crossed the Niagara river, carried the Fort by storm, and murdered the whole garrison except three who escaped over the pickets; burnt villages of Lewistown and Manchester, every building between the latter place and Niagara, and on the ridge road 11 miles as far as the arsenal; expected to proceed to Buffalo.