On April 4, 1815, a settlement on the Côte Sans Dessein hill weathered an attack by members of the Sac and Fox Nation in a battle that extended the War of 1812, even though a treaty ending the war had been signed in December 1814. While most of the fort's men were drawn away into a skirmish in the forest, another Sac and Fox group attacked the settlement. Louis Roi, who had remained behind because his gun's ramrod needed maintenance, was in the blockhouse with only two other men and two women, one of them his wife. As the attackers struck, Roi fired from the blockhouse portholes while the women cast bullets so he could keep shooting. His marksmanship, together with the women's support, reportedly killed 14 Native Americans and wounded many more. Believing they faced a large force, the attackers turned to burning the blockhouse with flaming arrows, but the two women repeatedly put out the flames with water, then milk, and finally urine collected in a chamber pot. The Sac and Fox eventually retreated, and the fort survived through the women's quick thinking. Soon afterward, the Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser of St. Louis published an exaggerated report calling it a massacre and claiming the village had been burned and its inhabitants slaughtered, but the newspaper's next issue corrected that the attack had not been as fatal as first reported.