This latter fact is settled beyond all question .-- To the united forces of Colonels Grant and Middleton, were added a certain number of Chickasaw and Catawba Indians; making a total of twenty-six hundred men.

This army reached Fort Prince George on the 29th of May, 1761.

On the 7th of June following, it took up the line of march for the enemy's country.

The advance was conducted with caution, but without molestation, until it reached the place where Montgomery, in the previous campaign, had encountered the Indians, near the town of Etchoee.

Here the Cherokees were again prepared to make a stand, and to dispute a pass which, above all others, seemed to be admirably designed by nature for the purposes of defence.