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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER VIII
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* * "There is little doubt that either side, British or Americans, stood ready to enlist the Indians.

Already before Boston the Americans had had the help of the Stockbridge tribe.

Washington found the service committed to the practise when he arrived at Cambridge early in July.
Dunmore had taken the initiative in securing such allies, at least is purpose; but the insurgent Virginians had had of late more direct contact with the tribes and were now striving to secure them but with little success." "The Westward Movement," by Justin Winsor, p.

87.
General Ethan Allen of Vermont, as his letters show, sent emissaries into Canada in an endeavor to enlist the French Canadians and the Canadian Indians against the British in Canada.

See "American Archives," Fourth Series, vol.II, p.714.The British General Gage wrote to Lord Dartmouth from Boston, June 18, 1775: "We need not be tender of calling on the Savages as the rebels have shown us the example, by bringing as many Indians down against us as they could collect." "American Archives." Fourth Series, vol.ii, p.


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