connor sent additional troops to block the indian escape route through a ravine, and sent the rest of his soldiers on a flanking maneuver to a ridge, from where they fired down into the indians. the soldiers also fired on indians as they attempted to escape by swimming across the bitterly cold river. the troops killed nearly all of the indians in the encampment, aside from about 160 women and children, who were later released and given some wheat to help feed them.