Cabins and fields were burned, and women and children were slaughtered or dragged away captives.
Not only did immigration cease but many hardy settlers fled from the country.

At length, after horrors indescribable and great toll of life, the Cherokees gave up the struggle.

Their towns were invaded and laid waste by imperial and colonial troops, and they could do nothing but make peace.

In 1761 they signed a treaty with the English to hold "while rivers flow and grasses grow and sun and moon endure." In the previous year (1760) the imperial war had run its course in America.

New France lay prostrate, and the English were supreme not only on the Ohio but on the St.Lawrence and the Great Lakes.