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Updated: June 13, 2025
In several hand to hand encounters he performed prodigies of valor, and once thought he perceived the Kid and Black Jack, together with Wilson whom he saw in their company at Newbiggin's farm, fighting on the English side.
The request for provisions was cheerfully complied with. About 10 o'clock A.M., he moved into camp on Newbiggin's Farm, situated on Frenchman's Creek, four miles down the river from Fort Erie, where he remained till 10 o'clock P.M. During the afternoon, Capt.
In this way matters stood with him on the night that he left his camp at Newbiggin's Farm. He was aware that two large bodies of the enemy's troops were marching upon him from two opposite points, and that to permit them to form a junction would be to court utter annihilation.
Thus baffled and circumscribed, these two scoundrels prowled about the village until near ten o'clock, when the troops moved down the river about four miles, and went into camp at Newbiggin's farm. At this period the gallant O'Neill was in great uncertainty. Here he was in an enemy's country with but a handful of men, and in utter darkness as to what was going on at other points.
"I can satisfy you as to both these circumstances," broke in the Kid, with a voice as bland as if murder had not visited his heart for an age, "for I heard this evening that they were encamped about four hundred strong at Newbiggin's farm, four or five miles down the river from Fort Erie; and that they intended to move on towards Chippewa about ten o'clock; branching off in the direction of Ridgeway, in the hope of meeting the troops coming from Port Colborne, and defeating them before they formed a junction with those expected from Chippewa."
It will be remembered that when the brave O'Neill and his handful of troops fell down the river from Fort Erie on the night of the first of June, to go into camp at Newbiggin's Farm, preparations were being made by the British not only to overpower him with superior numbers but to cut off his retreat upon the American shore and capture his whole command.
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