A British and Native force successfully recovered medical supplies they buried on the Chourous farm a few kilometres from Fort George, Ontario.

The British buried large amounts of medical supplies and medicine on the Chourous farm a few kilometres from Fort George.

[citation needed] On July 7 a force of 140 natives and a few British soldiers under Captain William Hamilton Merritt located the medical supplies.

[2] The next morning the natives moved to the nearby woods on the Ball family farm to protect the British as they dug up the supplies.

Around five hundred Americans sortied from the fort including a few dragoons under the command of a Major Malcom.

Twenty Americans were killed and thirteen captured during the affair compared to only three natives wounded.