 Leaving some twenty men to guard the captured stores at Kekionga, his force marched out over the Eel River trail (the same trail Colonel John Hardin would follow ten years later).The Miami Indians, learning of the intrusion, destroyed the small group of men left at Kekionga.Chief Little Turtle, who lived in a village along the Eel River, received permission from the Kekionga Miami to lead an attack.