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Abstract: Memoir on
Louisiana
(1726)
Dodun? in: (AC, C13, Gen. Corr. Louisiana,
vol. I: 138-14) and in Mississippi Provincial
Archives, Vol. III, pp. 495-498.
p. 496.
. . . It is necessary to begin by explaining that as we are at peace with the English they are not attacking us openly but they are endeavoring to include in alliance with them the nations that have been in alliance with us up to the present, after which they will have our plantations destroyed by these same Indians, and they will get possession of Louisiana without our having anything to say to them because they would reply to us that it is not their fault if the natives of the country have driven us out.
In 1725 the English undertook two enterprises equally dangerous for our colony. One is a considerable establishment on the Ohio River by means of which they can come down to the Mississippi in four days and take themselves to the mouth of the Wabash River and put the Illinois behind them. This nation would enter into an alliance with them, as well as [would] the Miamis, Weas and other nations that provide the commerce and the security of Canada (p. 139 v.) as well as of Louisiana. All these nations are at present trading with them. They will induce them to destroy, when they wish to do so, both our missionaries and our establishments of the Illinois which are considerable. . . .
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