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NYGWPB.764.125
15 Nov 1764:13 (1141)
New-York, November 15. Extract of a letter from the camp,
near the Carrying-Place, Sandusky Lake, October 5, 1764. I
hoped before now to have been on my passage towards home,
agreeable to what I wrote to you from Detroit.--We are
halted at Sandusky.--We all expected we were come here to
finish the peace with the Shawanese and Delawares, which our
colonel begun at 'Lance aux Fuilles;--Instead of that, in
consequence of some orders just now come, we are to attack
them. . . [27 more lines describing the difficulties,
including:] The impracticability of a march into that
country, 300 miles from hence, without any horses, is well
known; and the incapacity of the troops, to attempt it, too
evident; if you but look at them, more than half are in the
condition of Sir John Falstaff's. . . [24 more lines] our
new acquired subjects the Ottawas, Chipewas, and Hurons,
are gone against the Shawanese, &c. with a bloody belt; they
last night took up the hatchet, and sung the war song, and
danced the war dance. . . [10 more lines]
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