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La Jonquiere to Rouille
(October 15, 1750)
In: "Reports to Raymond," Archives
Nationales,
Ministere des Colonies, C11A 95:286 and in
Illinois Historical Collections,
French Series, vol. III,
pp. 237-243.
. . . He has requested me on my side to engage the tribes of Detroit, the Miami, the Wea, and others of this region as well as the Iroquois of the Sault St. Louis and of the Lake of the Two Mountains to go and attack the Chickasaw; I will endeavor next spring to induce the tribes last mentioned to go.
For the rest I have instructed M. de Vaudreuil as to the small success of M. de Celoron's campaign on the Ohio River, and I have reiterated to him that it was necessary for him to do everything possible to unite the Shawnee to the rest of their tribe. . .
. . . He confirms to me all the bad news which I have had of the Miami who have taken refuge on Great Miami River and adds that La Demoiselle, chief of these rebels, is doing everything possible at the solicitation of the English to draw to his side the tribes of the Wabash and even those that are domiciled at Fort de Chartres; further, speeches and belts have been carried as far as the Missouri to make all the tribes revolt and to induce them to cut off the French completely. He observes that if the post on Great Miami River remains for only a little longer, the English will succeed in winning over the Wabash tribes already mentioned as well as those of his post and little by little those of the Missouri, which would occasion not merely the loss of his post which the English will not fail to seize but also the loss of the trade of Canada and the communication by way of the Mississippi River.
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