The Niagara Campaign of 1814: The Battle of Chippawa "The loss of our friends gave us all a gloomy appearance." John Norton after the Battle of Chippawa. Further Reading The Americans Take Fort Erie: Prelude to the Battle of Chippawa The Battle of Chippawa The Iroquois Clash in the Forest at Chippawa

John Norton Meets the Iroquois From New York After the Battle of Chippawa Grand River chief John Norton remembers a meeting with chiefs of the Six Nations who had fought with the Americans at the battle of Chippawa. Norton’s account deals primarily with their explanation of them being pressured to side with the United States: "On joining Col. Scott at Burlington, I found that he had concentrated the whole of his Regiment, the 103rd, at that place, and that he was in readiness to move forward to attack the Enemy in rear, should he attempt to invest General Riall at Fort George. More than a thousand Militia also embodied and moved forward at the same time. We followed with Five or Six Hundred Indians, and came up with him at the Forty Mile Creek. "Some of our men who had left Burlington after us, arrived at this place, and informed me that two Indians from the American Army had arrived there with an old Chief of the Cayugas, whom they had taken prisoner at Chippawa, that they had proposed a meeting of the Chiefs of the different Tribes, and that the Onondagas and Shawanons, who had proceeded a few miles on the Road after us, returned to hear what they had to say. "I proceeded to see the two men, one of whom I recognized, as it had only been four years since he had emigrated from the Grand River to the village of that nation on the American Side of the Line. They were seated together with the old man whom they had conducted home. I found that they had come to propose an Exchange of prisoners, and that they had expected to have found one of their Chiefs prisoner, who had probably been killed in the action."