I was merely curious about your motives.

I am sure also that you can be of great help to us." He spoke in a patronizing manner, and Braxton Wyatt moved slightly in anger, but restrained his speech.
"I may say," continued the Spaniard, "that His Excellency Bernardo Galvez, His Most Catholic Majesty's Governor of his loyal province of Louisiana, has been stirred by the word that comes to him of these new settlements of the rebel Americans in the land of the Ohio.

The province of Louisiana is vast, and it may be that it includes the country on either side of the Ohio.

The French, our predecessors, claimed it, and now that all the colonists east of the mountains are busy fighting their king, it may be easy to take it from them, as one would snip off a skirt with a pair of scissors.

That is why I and this faithful band are so far north in these woods." Braxton Wyatt nodded.
"And a wise thing, too," he said.