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Kerlerec to Rouille
(August 20, 1753)
Kerlerec in: Archives Nationales,
Ministere des Colonies, C13A
37:66-77 and in Pease and
Jenison, French Series,
III, pp. 822-831.
According to the accounts which M. de Macarty, commandant at the Illinois, gives me, I see with pleasure that everything about him speaks of tranquility. He is working to bring back the domiciled Indians and to reconcile them with the Foxes. He adds to me that the Marquis Duquesne indicates to him that he is doing the same on his side with the Foxes in such a way that I hope soon to learn that peace will be made between the two tribes, which is much to be desired.
M. Duquesne also gives him information of a little armada at the end of next month of about fifteen hundred men which is (page 825) to go to Great Miami River to oppose the rebels, who I think on hearing of it will retire each to his tribe, perhaps after having made some expeditions, especially when they are informed that this detachment is to remain there three years, establish posts, and be relieved at the end of that same time by the same number. This step, Monseigneur, was essential; useful as it will be, it is to be criticized only for not having been taken much sooner. . .
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