There is a story that, in an attack during one of his absences, the Indians forced the outer gate of the fort and Mrs.Robertson went out of her cabin, firing, and let loose a band of the savage dogs which the settlers kept for their protection, and so drove out the invaders.
The Chickasaws were loyal to the treaty they had made with the British in the early days of James Adair's association with them.

They were friends to England's friends and foes to her foes.

While they resented the new settlements made on land they considered theirs, they signed a peace with Robertson at the conclusion of the War of Independence.
They kept their word with him as they had kept it with the British.
Furthermore, their chief, Opimingo or the Mountain Leader, gave Robertson his assistance against the Creeks and the Choctaws and, in so far as he understood its workings, informed him of the new Spanish and French conspiracy, which we now come to consider.

So once again the Chickasaws were servants of destiny to the English-speaking race, for again they drove the wedge of their honor into an Indian solidarity welded with European gold.
Since it was generally believed at that date that the tribes were instigated to war by the British and supplied by them with their ammunition, savage inroads were expected to cease with the signing of peace.

But Indian warfare not only continued; it increased.