THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Bouquet to Forbes
(Sept. 4, 1758)
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Bouquet, Henry in: B. M., Add. MSS. 21652, f. 60, A. Df. (original not found) and in Stevens, et all. The Papers of Henry Bouquet, vol. II, 1951, pp. 467-474. |
p. 471.
The other point concerns the delays forced upon us by the shortage of wagons. It does not appear that the enemy still has a large body of Indians; all the reports agree on this point, as very few are seen around the fort, and they have never bothered us very much. If they are keeping them in the rear to save their provisions, as is very likely, they will not have them to come until we advance; and if they come then, they can always keep them for a month during the crisis of the expedition. In that case, our delays are worse for us than for them, because we have all our men to feed.
As regards the negotiation2 on foot
with the Indians, it seems to me that the best way of dealing with them is at
the time when we have the means of chastising them; and by the mental attitude
and location of those settled on the Ohio, they would never dare to desert the
French, if they did not see us prepared and ready to beat them; and in this
case, too, a delay would be harmful to us.
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2 Forbes to Bouquet, September 2, which see.
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