Complex sentence: Mauled by elusive sharshooters, the Kentuckians quickly became surrounded, and with the Americans caught in between two forces, the advancing British and Indians render Captain Morrison's reserve column too late.
Split into simpler sentences: Mauled by elusive sharshooters, the Kentuckians quickly become surrounded. With the Americans caught in between two forces, the advancing British and Indians render Captain Morrison's reserve column too late.