The french and indians, the number of each not known, had, as we found after, possessed the sides and brow of a hill, in a circular form, from the extreme of which some of them fired upon one of our advanced flank parties. this immediately struck a general panic; the men could not be persuaded to form regularly; in great confusion they fell back . . no order could be restored. –the public advertiser september 20, 1755 based on this passage, which statement is true?