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Colonel recommended his march, he had progressed but a little when he was attached by a double number of Indians, who retreated after an unclear engagement. This last action happening in the night it was not correctly assertained when the messenger came away what number of the enemy were killed (it is supposed about 30- Colonel Smith also informed that 100 Negroes were let out of St. Augustine who with some Indians were on the river below him, and were coming up it, and he imagined that the Indians met by Colo. N. were on their way to join in an attack upon his camp. The only assistance he could afford Colonel Newman was to send him all the horses he could collect.