Meanwhile, Governor Edwards had reached the head of Peoria Lake (where Peoria is today) and now didn't meet up with Samuel Hopkins' Army, so returned to Fort Russell.
About that same time, Captain Thomas E. Craig led a party of two boats up the Illinois River to Peoria. His boats, as he alleged, were fired upon in the night by Indians who had been harbored and protected by the French citizens of Peoria.
He then burned the greater part of the French village and captured a number of its people. He carried them downriver and put them ashore in the early part of winter just below Alton.
--Brock-Perry
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