. Nos héros pionniers et leurs actions audacieuses . GÉN. C. H. CHARGE de l'er CROOK. Ainsi la cavalerie, a été conduite, jusqu'à ce que les deux wingswere complètement désunited. La gauche a été rappelée à la position d'origine, mais il était plus difficile de retracer leurs pas qu'il avait été d'avancer. En se chargeant, ils avaient trouvé l'ennemi fondre devant eux; en se retournant, les Indiens déversaient le ravin et la colline. En contournant avec l'ennemi dusky sur le flankand à l'arrière comme à l'avant, il y a eu un moment de lutte désespéré main-à-main—sabres et pistolets, lances et couteaux, et ils avaient un chemin de retour à la standa

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. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . GEN. C. H. CROOK. er charge. So the cavalry, was led onward, until the two wingswere completely disunited. The left was recalled to the origi-nal position, but it was more difficult to retrace their steps thanit had been to advance. Charging onward, they had found theenemy melt away before them; retreating, Indians poured fromevery ravine and hill. Contending with the dusky foe on flankand rear as well as in front, there was a moment of desperatehand-to-hand fighting—sabres and pistols, lances and knives, —and they had hewn a path back to the standard of the commander. THE BATTLK OF THE ROSEBII). 687. 688 GKNt:i{Ai, cuooJc. - It was an eventful year to the Indian fighters. All through the, summer and fall we hear of marches and fights; of the Indianspursued so closely and so secretly that on one occasion at leastthe soldiers found the live embers of a fire, a bloody hatchet, andparts of a newly killed antelope carcass in a new brush tepee, onthe line of march. As they advanced to the northward, theircourse became plainer to the Indian, whose only learning is thewoodcraft which enables him to bafile or pursue his enemies; andthe horizon, here and there, grew dark with the smoke of signalfires. Gen. Crook expected to receive reinforcements of CrowIndians early in June, but as they did not join him at the timewhen they were ordered to do so, he sent two companies of in-fantry forward to Powder Eiver, a day in advance of the maincolumn, to meet them, in order to insure safety from the hostiles.But telegraphic communication with the Crow agency had beenbroken, and they had never received

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