Indians" mentions Major Brenton: There was brave Major Brinton, the first in command In the front of the battle he boldly did stand With courage and conduct, his part did maintain Though, bullets like hail, in great showers they came And as this brave here was giving command The rifle balls rattled on every hand He received a ball, but his life did not yield He remained with the wounded men, out on the field Shortly after returning from the Crawford Expedition, Brenton was mortally wounded at the Battle of Blue Licks on August 19, 1782. One of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War, Blue Licks took place near the Licking River, in what is now Robertson County, Kentucky (but was then Kentucky County, Virginia). Approximately 50 Loyalists and 300 American Indians ambushed 182 frontier militiamen. James' son, also named James, was in the party which buried the dead after the Battle of Blue Licks. According to family legend, James brought his father's body back to Harrodsburg for burial. References Bibliography Brown, Parker B. "'Crawford's Defeat': A Ballad." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 64 (March 1981): 311–327. Brown, Parker B. "Reconstructing Crawford's Army of 1782". Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 65 (January 1982): 17–36. Brown, Parker B. "The Battle of Sandusky: June 4–6, 1782". Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 65 (April 1982): 115–151. Brown, Parker B. "The Fate of Crawford Volunteers Captured by Indians Following the Battle of Sandusky in 1782". Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 65 (October 1982): 323–39. Brenton, Chester Fay. "American descendants of Magistrate Brenton of Hammersmith, England." London, England . C.F. Brenton, 1997. Page 44. De Rosenthal, Gustavus. Journal of a Volunteer Expedition to Sandusky: From May 24 to June 13, 1782. Ayer Co Pub, 1969. Gwathmey, John H. "Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, Vol. 1: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, 1775-1783". Richmond, VA. 1938. Page 91. Kentucky Historical Society. Genealogical Committee. "Kentucky Ancestors: Volumes 27-28". Kentucky Historical Society. 1991 Reid, Darren R. "Daniel Boone and Others on the Kentucky Frontier: Autobiographies and Narratives, 1769-1795". McFarland, 2009. Page 148. Reuben Gold Thwaites & Louise Phelps Kellogg. "Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778: Compiled From the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society". State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1912. Pages 84, 216-217. Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications: Abstracted, Volumes 11-14. 1965. Washington, Irvine, & Butterfield. "Washington-Irvine Correspondence: The Official Letters Which Passed Between Washington And William