Later, through an alliance with the French, they won back their old independence.

But they lay in the path of white settlement, and were ousted from one hunting-ground after another, until finally they had to seek homes beyond the Alleghanies.

The British had robbed the Delawares of their ancient lands, and the Delawares hated with an undying hatred the race that had injured them.

They mustered six hundred warriors.
Almost directly south of Fort Niagara, by the upper waters of the Genesee and Alleghany rivers, lay the homes of the Senecas, one of the Six Nations.

This tribe looked upon the British settlers in the Niagara region as squatters on their territory.