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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER VI
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He raised some fifty volunteers round Cahokia and Kaskaskia, perhaps as many more on the Wabash, and marched to the Maumee River.

Here he stopped to plunder some British traders; and in November the neighboring Indians fell on his camp, killed him and thirty or forty of his men, and scattered the rest.

[Footnote: Haldimand MSS.

De Peyster to Haldimand, Nov.

16, 1780.] His march had been so quick and unexpected that it rendered the British very uneasy, and they were much rejoiced at his discomfiture and death.
The following year a new element of confusion was added.


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